Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII - Hardcover

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, UK, and Director of the Kenneth Branagh Archive. His books include Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle (2000) and Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006).