This bold new collection surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and the BBC "Shakespea(Re)-Told" season to Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice and Peter Babakitis' Henry V. The volume offers in-depth analyses of major and obscure productions, touching on advertisements, appropriations, postcolonial reinventions, and mass media citations, arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet for debate over style, literary authority, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and romance. Consideration the Derry Film Initiative Hamlet, the New Zealand The Maori Merchant of Venice, and the television documentary In Search of Shakespeare, this collection innovatively assesses the continuing relevance of Shakespeare in his many local and global screen incarnations.

Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Macmillan, 1997), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007).

Introduction; Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray; 1. 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare, Richard Dutton; 2. 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet, Mark Thornton Burnett; 3. Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race, Richard Burt; 4. The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom, Courtney Lehmann; 5. Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism, Susanne Greenhalgh and Robert Shaughnessy; 6. Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino, Samuel Crowl; 7. Speaking Maori Shakespeare, Catherine Silverstone; 8. 'Into a thousand parts divide one man', Sarah Hatchuel; 9. Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millenial Shakespeare Cinema; 10. Shakespeare and the Singletons, Ramona Wray; Notes on Contributors; Index.