Shakespeare, films and the marketplace ; From play-script to screenplay / Russell Jackson -- Video and its paradoxes / Michèle Willems -- Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history : the case of Richard III / Barbara Freedman -- Shakespeare and movie genre : the case of Hamlet / Harry Keyishian -- Comedies on film / Michael Hattaway -- Filming Shakespeare's history : three films of Richard III / H.R. Coursen -- Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film / J. Lawrence Guntner -- Tragedies of love on film / Patricia Tatspaugh -- Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier / Anthony Davies -- Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare / Pamela Mason -- Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear / Mark Sokolyansky -- Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare / Deborah Cartmell -- Flamboyant realist : Kenneth Branagh / Samuel Crowl -- Looking at Shakespeare's women on film / Carol Chillington Rutter.

National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films / Neil Taylor -- Shakespeare the illusionist : filming the supernatural / Neil Forsyth -- Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots / Tony Howard.