caa a22 4500 38805851X CHVBK 20180307125114.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0040557400002994 doi S0040557400002994 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0040557400002994 Bennett Susan Godard and Lear: Trashing the Can(n)on [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Bennett] In the late 1990s, the endlessly reinvented Shakespeare has apparently become a popular and successful screenwriter. The recent release of Richard III, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Twelfth Night and Hamlet have brought an enthusiastic movie-going public to see, among other things, the Capulets and the Montagues on the beach and Hamlet striding through a cast of thousands at Elsinore. But this is not to suggest that this particular genre success is either new or inappropriate; the collection of artifacts known as Shakespeare (including but not limited to the plays themselves) has long signified as high art dedicated to the education of not just a theatre-going elite nor the mass audiences of popular media, but everyone. On a global scale, Shakespeare means culture or, as Michael Bristol would more wittily have it, Shakespeare is "big time.” This history of the cultural capital that is Shakespeare continues to have a fascination for, and a usefulness to the producers and distributors of films. Thus, to turn Shakespeare from playwright to screenwriter is, culturally speaking, both a pragmatic and predictable strategy. And it is a strategy that has more or less existed as long as film itself. Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1998 Theatre Survey Cambridge University Press 39/1(1998-05), 7-19 0040-5574 39:1<7 1998 39 TSY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557400002994 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557400002994 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bennett Susan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Survey Cambridge University Press 39/1(1998-05), 7-19 0040-5574 39:1<7 1998 39 TSY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge