"Early versions of some of these chapters were given as papers at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting of the British Shakespeare Association"--Acknowledgements

Includes index

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare; 2 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet; 3 Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race; 4 The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom; 5 Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism; 6 Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino; 7 Speaking Maori Shakespeare: The Maori Merchant of Venice and the Legacy of Colonisation
8 'Into a thousand parts divide one man': Dehumanised Metafiction and Fragmented Documentary in Peter Babakitis' Henry V9 Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millennial Shakespeare Cinema; 10 Shakespeare and the Singletons, or, Beatrice Meets Bridget Jones: Post-Feminism, Popular Culture and 'Shakespea(Re)-Told'; Notes on Contributors; Index

This work examines film and television interpretations of Shakespeare's plays in the 21st century. It surveys the field of Bardic film representations from Michael Almereyda's 'Hamlet' to Michael Radford's 'The Merchant of Venice', as well as cinema advertisements and mass media citations.