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Article: Shakespeare Translated: Derivatives on Film and TV.(Book review)
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- Shakespeare Bulletin
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- June 22, 2007
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Shakespeare Translated: Derivatives on Film and TV. By H. R. Coursen. Studies in Shakespeare, Vol. 15. Robert F. Willson, Jr., General Editor. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
In a 1995 review of his then-recently published book on small-screen adaptations of Shakespeare, Watching Shakespeare on Television, Sidney Gottleib wrote of Coursen: "It is clear throughout [the book] that H. R. Coursen loves the stage and the page but has at best a qualified and somewhat grudging respect for the screen" (469). More than a decade later, in addition to "dumb[ed] down" (Coursen 1) TV Shakespeares, the veteran Air Force pilot, novelist, poet, Shakespeare scholar, and ...