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Chimes at Midnight by Bridget Gellert Lyons
Orson Welles, Director
This volume offers a continuity script including its famous battle sequence. Each shot is described in detail and is keyed to the original Shakespearean sources. It also includes the editor's critical introduction on Welles' transformation of Shakespeare.A conflation of the Shakespearean history plays that feature Falstaff, the great comic figure played by Welles himself in the film. This volume offers a complete continuity script of "Chimes at Night", including its famous battle sequence. Each shot is described in detail and is keyed to the original Shakespearean sources, thus making the volume a guide to Welles as an adaptor and creator of texts. The transcription of the continuity script of "Chimes" is accompanied by the editor's critical introduction on Welles' transformation of Shakespeare; an interview with Keith Baxter, one of the film's principal actors, which discusses its production history; reviews and articles; a biographical sketch of Welles and a filmography. |
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| Author(s) : Bridget Gellert Lyons | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0813513391 | ISBN-13 : 9780813513393 |
| RRP : £14.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Rutgers Films in Print S.
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 28/02/1989
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page Length : 225mm
Page Size : 230mm