Shakespeare's Influence | Shakespeare on Film and Television
Shakespeare has generated some truly exotic manifestations on the movie screens of the world. It was inevitable in the era of the silent film that his plays would undergo significant changes, since a large part of the movie audience was barely literate, the movies were far more business than art, and Shakespeare's poetry and prose were absent except in the interspersed titles. When filmmakers gave in to the impulse to modernize, burlesque, or go the Bard one better, extraordinary metamorphoses resulted, such as Romeo and Juliet at the Seaside, The Jewish King Lear, and...
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