This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Screening the Stage Sequelizing Shakespeare The Local and the Global Racial Identities, Global Economies Remembrance, Holocaust, Globalization Spirituality/Meaning/Shakespeare Post-Millennial Parody Epilogue Bibliography Index

MARK THORNTON BURNETT is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (1997) and Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002).