Shakespearean performance and adaption in silent films of the early 1900’s

For the essay, the main points to consider and include are:

–    What were people doing with Shakespeare in the era of silent film? What can be noted in terms of adaptations? Deep Analysis and deep critical arguments please!
–    How is Shakespeare visually interpreted when there is little or no words? Deep Analysis and deep critical arguments please!
–    Structure deep, critical and thoroughly researched arguments and analysis around silent films and Shakespeare, arguments such as adaptions. Main focus on adaptations.
–    Include online video clips as examples (to describe passages, sequences and scenes of Shakespearean plays from the silent film era as the equivalent of a quotation from a play in printed form. Use hyperlinks of these video clips and incorporate them into the essay as in-text quotes and as part of the list of works cited. Deep Analysis and deep critical arguments please!
–    For reflection on approaching the end of the essay, establish connections from Shakespearean adaptations in silent films to Canadian contemporary productions with examples and deep Analysis and deep critical arguments please!, keeping in mind the question of:
o    What are Shakespeare’s relationships to film technology from the silent era and how they have affected contemporary Canadian productions in film and onstage with examples. This require deep analysis, deep critical arguments, well researched arguments of adaption.

–    Conclusion: draw some connections between Shakespeare and the silent film to where we are now with advanced film and stage technology.
o    For example, the films mentioned in the essay can be compared to the newest developments in Shakespearean film which is live performance to video recording (see things on film while they are being performed) with very deep analysis and very deep critical arguments on adaptions, please!

The essay must be coherent with a theme (thesis) or two.

Essay length: 10 pages or 2500 words, double-spaced.

Essay style: MLA

Number of sources required: 39 to 50 (Minimum 39 sources, maximum 50 sources).

For help with research, use the MLA bibliography and the World Shakespeare Bibliography online.

This paper will be submitted electronically and be subjected to thorough and stringent plagiarism checks.

Research skills, analysis skills and argument skills will be primarily
evaluated. The deeper they are the higher the grade, so I would like really extremely deep research, analysis and arguments, please, with sophisticated language and sophisticated vocabulary at Doctoral level.

Book Titles and authors (surname, given names):

Shakespeare and the problem of adaptation.  Kidnie, Margaret Jane.

Shakespeare and modernism. DiPietro, Cary.

Shakespeare in Canada: a world elsewhere? Leggatt, Alexander.

Anatomy of Criticism. Frye, Northrop.

Frye on Shakespeare. Frye, Northrop.

Shakespeare in Canada. Makaryk, Irena R.

Please use some or all of the following Shakespearean plays as references:

A Misummer Night’s Dream,
Twelfth Night,
King Lear,
Hamlet,
As You Like It,
Merchant of Venice,
Cymbeline.

The following list of book references are not required reading for the course, but that I believe to be helpful in writing the essay. Please use some or all of them, it’s up to you:

Shakespeare on silent film : an excellent dumb discourse / Judith Buchanan.

Shakespeare on silent film; a strange eventful history.

History of Shakespeare on screen : a century of film and television / Kenneth S. Rothwell.

Studying Shakespeare on film / Maurice Hindle.

Interpreting Shakespeare on screen / Deborah Cartmell.

Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film / edited by Russell Jackson.

Shakespeare observed : studies in performance on stage and screen / Samuel Crowl.

Watching Shakespeare on television / H.R. Coursen.

Shakespeare, film studies, and the visual cultures of modernity / Anthony R. Guneratne.

Filming Shakespeare’s plays : the adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa / Anthony Davies.

Almost Shakespeare : reinventing his works for cinema and television / edited by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner.

Shakespeare on film, television and radio : the researcher’s guide / edited by Olwen Terris, Eve-Marie Oesterlen and Luke McKernan.

Shakespeare on film / edited by Robert Shaughnessy.

Shakespeare and the moving image : the plays on film and television / edited by Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells.

Shakespeare, film, fin de siècle / edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray ; foreword by Peter Holland.

Shakespeare on television : an anthology of essays and reviews / edited by J.C. Bulman and H.R. Coursen.

Spectacular Shakespeare : critical theory and popular cinema / edited by Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks.

Shakespeare and the moving image : the plays on film and television / edited by Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells.

History of Shakespeare on screen : a century of film and television / Kenneth S. Rothwell.

Reel Shakespeare : alternative cinema and theory / edtied by Lisa S. Starks and Courtney Lehmann.

Shakespeare’s culture in modern performance / Maria Jones.

Shakespeare in the cinema : ocular proof / Stephen M. Buhler.

Talking Shakespeare : Shakespeare into the millennium / edited by Deborah Cartmell and Michael Scott.

Shakespeare performance studies / W. B. Worthen.

Hamlet : film, television, and audio performance / Bernice W. Kliman.