is professor emeritus of English at the University of North Dakota. His books include "Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture" (1999), "Cinematic Shakespeare" (2004), and "Lincoln and Shakespeare" (2015). He wrote an essay for the Criterion Blue-Ray release of "Chimes at Midnight" and was interviewed for the Olive Films Blue-Ray of "Macbeth."
Chimes at Midnight, the 1966 film directed by and starring Orson Welles, constructs a rich, complex, and moving portrait of the larger-than-life Sir John Falstaff, who appears in three of Shakespeare’s plays and is among the best-known characters in all…
Was it the first Shakespeare film? The silent King John
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With Herbert Beerbohm Tree as the king, the four-minute silent movie “King John” (1899) is often called “the first Shakespeare film,” as Michael Anderegg explains. Watch the surviving one-minute fragment and learn more about its theatrical star.
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