Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations

"Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-sc獺enes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens"--Provided by publisher.