Books by Judith Buchanan
“In the book, Buchanan moves us away from a language that we used to have, which was, ‘How close is this to the text? How faithful an adaptation is it?’ Instead, she comes at it more from a film background to ask, ‘How successful is this film at translating or transforming a 16th-century play into a 20th-century film?’ That means cutting a huge amount of dialogue and using the visual, not just to tell the story, but to carry the metaphorical content of the language.” Read more...
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception
Emma Smith, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Judith Buchanan were recommended
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Titus Andronicus (Arden Shakespeare)
by Jonathan Bate & William Shakespeare -
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Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History, from the Restoration to the Present
by Gary Taylor -
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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
by Ayanna Thompson -
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Shakespeare on Film
by Judith Buchanan -
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare
by Alexa Alice Joubin (editor)
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception, recommended by Emma Smith
The best books on Shakespeare’s Reception, recommended by Emma Smith
In the years after William Shakespeare died, his plays took on a life of their own. They meant different things to different people at different times as they spread around the world, turning a glover’s son from a one-horse town in central England into one of the best-known authors of all time. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, recommends books to better understand ‘Shakespeare reception’—the study of Shakespeare since his death.
