ABSTRACT
Shakespeare is deeply inscribed in the table of filmic memory. Shakespeare on film certainly does not mean Shakespeare forever – and this remains even more the case because some of Shakespeare's plays are very rarely put on screen and thus tend to be relegated to a world of oblivion. Like Shakespearean scholars around the world, international range of contributors contribute, through writing, to the memory of these films and, beyond them, of Shakespeare. Some other Shakespearean films remain in collective memory thanks to their directors or actors. A Shakespearean film encapsulates the memory of the specific historical and material conditions which gave it shape. Shakespearean excerpts at one and the same time legitimize and challenge the memory of canonical Shakespeare. The 'Shakespeare's Globe On Screen' initiative also promises to offer 'spellbinding performances' and 'an unforgettable cinema experience'. The stage performance also looks to Welles, strongly recalling his Othello with the same chiaroscuro lighting and whistling wind.
