Shakespeare, madness, and music scoring insanity in cinematic adaptations /
Shakespeare's three political tragedies--Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear--have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could n...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | Shakespeare's three political tragedies--Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear--have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and expectation, political unrest, and, ultimately, truth, as excavated by characters so afflicted. Music has long been associated with madness, and was oftenused as an audible symptom of a victim's disassociation from their surroundings and societal rules, as well. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780810869585 (electronic bk.) 0810869586 (electronic bk.) |