Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear: A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film

Screen Adaptations #4

by Yvonne Griggs

Focussing on several film versions and adaptations, the book discusses: "King Lear"in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of thetext, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations havechanged our reading of the original text.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 30, 2009

Reviews

[Abby]

p. 124

[Kishan Katira · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it is definitely worth watching the film adaptations that Griggs lists in the beginning before reading this book. I'll be sure to watch these other films having read about their take on Lear because of their reviews in this book. Even though I only really enjoyed the section on Kurosawa's 'Ran', it seemed that the other sections were written with as much detail, and so I'm giving this book a good review.