Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern

Product description Review This is a first-rate study-densely written, expertly controlled, and intellectually invigorating.... Shakespeare Remains is a rare work-an original reflection on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater and an important contribution to discussion about 'the contestatory nature of Shakespeare's inheritance.'... Will significantly change perceptions of Shakespeare in all of his historical guises. -- Mark Thornton Burnett ― Shakespeare QuarterlyOverall, Lehmann's book is itself a montage of sorts, an intelligent, inventive engagement between Shakespeare studies and post-modern theory. ― Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe issue of authorship―its history, meaning, and significance―is what Courtney Lehmann explores in her book Shakespeare Remains: Theatre to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. -- Ken Wong ― Consciousness, LIterature and the ArtsEqually smart and timely, Courtney Lehmann's Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern is both original and conceptually brilliant.... Assured work by one of the best scholars of Shakespeare's films, this is a 'don't miss' book. -- Barbara Hodgdon ― Studies in English LiteratureShakespeare Remains... provides readers of Shakespeare and performance practitioners with an accessible critical perspective that links the literary body of Shakespeare's received texts to contemporary film adaptations of his plays. -- Joe Falocco, Catawba College ― Renaissance Quarterly About the Author Courtney Lehmann is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies and Director of the Pacific Humanities Center at the University of the Pacific.