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Free Will: Orson Welles and the Remediation of American Shakespeare, 1930--1948

Yezbick, Daniel Francis

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Title
Free Will: Orson Welles and the Remediation of American Shakespeare, 1930--1948
Author(s)
Yezbick, Daniel Francis
Issue Date
2004
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
  • Carringer, Robert
  • Shapiro, Michael
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Theater
Language
eng
Abstract
Welles conceived his projects to educate spectators about Shakespeare and warn them against the coercive power of media itself. Later chapters focus on Welles' adaptation of particular plays for different media. In each case, I examine how Welles' remediation of Shakespeare amplifies the relevance of early modern material for interwar American audiences. Chapter Three recuperates Welles' 1936 Columbia Workshop adaptation of Hamlet , his first full-scale radio adaptation of Shakespeare. Chapter Four focuses on how Welles revised his Mercury stage success, Julius Caesar: Death of a Dictator, for other media, including radio and phonograph recording. Chapter Five revises previous views of Welles' most ambitious Shakespearean project, the Mercury Text Shakespeare series. Chapter Six offers a new sound-based perspective on Welles' first Shakespeare film, the troubled 1948 Macbeth for Republic pictures.
Graduation Semester
2004
Type of Resource
text
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