Films by Zeffirelli and Branagh of Shakespeare's play
While Shakespeare wrote about 4000 lines for his play, rarely has it been performed or filmed in its entirety. Branagh has taken the First Folio version and combined that with passages that appear only in the Second Quarto version. Thus this 1996 script is longer than any standard version of the play. It is about four hours long. You may well compare it with Zeffirelli’s 1991 version which runs for 134 minutes.
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SD7-8F
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resource
Language:
English
Subject:
English Film
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Two quite different interpretations - one featuring a noted Shakespearean actor [Branagh] the other featuring an Australian actor who made his name in action movies [Gibson]. The student is offered the opportunity to compare the approaches and merits of these two versions.
