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Shakespeare on Silent Film
A Strange Eventful History
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature
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...
To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge