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Article: Editorial.(film adaptations of Shakespeare's works)(Editorial)
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- Cineaste
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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The current renaissance in Shakespearean cinema - one which in recent years has seen new film adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet, as well as such Shakespeare-related films as Looking for Richard and A Midwinter's Tale - has gone a long way toward reclaiming Shakespeare as a popular artist. Throughout America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Shakespeare was a staple of popular culture, just as he was in his own era, with the plays being performed extensively in working-class theaters and even in makeshift circumstances in Western frontier towns and mining camps.
Toward the end of ...