Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeares plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than chronology, it offers detailed commentary on significant films, including both mainstream and canonical works by such directors as Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, and Kenneth Branagh, and such ground-breaking movies as Derek JarmansThe Tempest, Baz Luhrmanns William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaways Prosperos Books. Chapters on the location of films in place and time, the effect of this on characterisation, and issues of gender and political power are followed by a discussion of work that goes beyond Shakespeare. Afilmography and suggestions for further reading complete this stimulating, fresh, and accessible account of an important aspect of Shakespeare studies.