Shakespeare on Silent Film

A Strange Eventful History

Robert Hamilton Ball

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781134980987
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Subtopic: Film e video

In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree's first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a medium with a reputation for frivolity.

This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and with reproduction of stills and frames from the films themselves, including unusual shots of leading screen actors. This is a valuable source book for film experts, enhanced by full notes, bibliography and indexes; a fresh approach for Shakespeareans; and a vivid sketch of a world that has passed for all.

INDEX OF NAMES

Abbey, May, 343

Abbott, Warren Hastings, 148

Abel, Alfred, 270

Abingdon, W. B., 322

Abrahams, A. E., 184

Abrams, Lou, 370

Acker, Edward, 351

Ackerman, Walter, 56

Acord, Art, 367

Achterberg, Fritz, 272

Adeney, Eric, 189

Adolfi, John G., 43, 45

Adorée, Renée, 374

Aicken, Elinor, 323

Ainley, Henry, 78

Ainsworth, Sydney, 373

Aitken, Harry E., 362

Aitken, Spottiswood, 231

Albers, Hans, 297

Alden, Mary, 362

Alexander, Ben, 362

Alexander, E., 333

Alexander, Sir George, 164

Alexandre, René, 325, 353

Allen, John E., 317, 339, 342, 363

Allen, Willi, 287

Alstrup, Carl, 98, 326

Alten, Ferdinand von, 279, 287, 377

‘Alured’, 303

Ambrosio, Arturo, 169, 170, 347

Ames, Gerald, 221

Ames, Hector, 362

Andean, Richard, 189

Ander, Charlotte, 297

Anderson, Mignon, 146, 200, 339

Andréani, Henri, 202, 325, 331

Annard, J., 75

Annenkoff, Barbara von, 297

Arbuckle, Fatty (Roscoe), 199, 357

Aretino, Pietro, 287

Arey, Wayne, 241, 366

Arling, Charles, 358

Armes, D., 209

Arthur, John, 237

Arthur, Paul, 223, 224

Astor, Mary, 270

Atkins, Robert, 189

Atkinson, Josephine (Mrs. Paul Panzer), 43, 311

Aubert, L., 352

Auer, Florence, 45, 52, 312, 313

Azzuri, Paulo, 346

Backner, Arthur, 220

Backner, Constance, 220

Bacqué, André, 127

Badger, Clarence, 267

Bailey, Gordon, 75

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