Filming As You Like It: a playful comedy becomes a problem

The two feature films of As You Like It (Paul Czinner's in 1936 with Elisabeth Bergner, and Christine Edzard's in 1992) would seem to suggest that this comedy lends itself less easily to the medium than (say) Much Ado About Nothing or The Taming of the Shrew. What general and specific conc...

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1. Verfasser: Jackson, Russell
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 2007
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:The two feature films of As You Like It (Paul Czinner's in 1936 with Elisabeth Bergner, and Christine Edzard's in 1992) would seem to suggest that this comedy lends itself less easily to the medium than (say) Much Ado About Nothing or The Taming of the Shrew. What general and specific conclusions might we draw from the example of these two films and their reception?