{"id":5577,"date":"2015-11-23T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T10:45:31","slug":"going-to-the-pictures-with-shakespeare-oup-elt-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5577","title":{"rendered":"Going to the pictures with Shakespeare (OUP ELT Blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 20 | November 23<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Not so long ago, we \u2018went to the pictures\u2019 (or \u2018the movies\u2019) and now they tend to come to us. For many people, visiting a cinema to see films is no longer their principal means of access to the work of film-makers. But however we see them, it\u2019s the seeing as much as the hearing of Shakespeare in this medium that counts. Or rather, it\u2019s the interplay between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Some Shakespeare films appeal directly to the kinship between cinema-going and the live theatre. Olivier\u2019s <em>Henry V<\/em> (1944) begins in an Elizabethan theatre, involving both a historical period and the viewers\u2019 sense of themselves as an audience \u2014 the effect doubly appropriate in a film made in wartime, asserting the values of communal spirit and shared emotions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His <em>Hamlet<\/em> (1948) begins with an overture \u2013 a device used for \u2018event\u2019 films since the advent of sound \u2014 and the image of theatrical paraphernalia, and although it moves beyond this frame, the architecture of its sets suggests on a magnified scale the kind of spaces created in the theatre with the adaptable steps, rostra, and archways of the \u2018unit\u2019 set common in the middle of the last century.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2015\/11\/shakespeare-on-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 20 | November 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Not so long ago, we \u2018went to the pictures\u2019 (or \u2018the movies\u2019) and now they tend to come to us. 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