Book contents
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Series page
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction – From Canon to Queer: Romeo and Juliet on Screen
- Part I Revisiting the Canon
- Chapter 2 The Italian Job: Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and the 1960s
- Chapter 3 The Anguish of Youth in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet
- Chapter 4 Aquatic and Celestial Space in Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
- Chapter 5 Coming to Grips with Shakespeare’s Tragedy in a Film Musical: Re-assessing Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story (1961)
- Part II Extending Genre
- Part III Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - The Italian Job: Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and the 1960s
from Part I - Revisiting the Canon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2023
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Book contents
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Series page
- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction – From Canon to Queer: Romeo and Juliet on Screen
- Part I Revisiting the Canon
- Chapter 2 The Italian Job: Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and the 1960s
- Chapter 3 The Anguish of Youth in Film Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet
- Chapter 4 Aquatic and Celestial Space in Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
- Chapter 5 Coming to Grips with Shakespeare’s Tragedy in a Film Musical: Re-assessing Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story (1961)
- Part II Extending Genre
- Part III Serial and Queer Romeo and Juliets
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter will explore Zeffirelli’s film in the context of the 1960s by briefly looking back at his stage production and then forward to the film’s seminal influence on significant stage and film productions in the 1980s, 1990s and new millennium. These will include Ron Daniels’s spirited 1980 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film and Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford’s 2016 London staging with Richard Madden, Lily James and Derek Jacobi.
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- Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet , pp. 33 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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