ABSTRACT
Since Shakespeare, The Movie went to press in 1997, Shakespeare adaptations, spin-offs, and citations on film and television have continued to gallop apace, and Shakespeare has continued to race at the forefront of new cinematic technologies. The German modern adaptation Rave MacBeth (dir. Klaus Knoesel, 2001), for example, was the first film to be shot on Sony’s new generation of 24-p (progressive scanning) 1080 cameras. 1 Similarly, Kristian Levring’s Dogme95 film The King is Alive (2000) was among the first to be shot entirely on digital film, and Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet (2001) includes extensive footage shot on a digital camcorder. Our new subtitle acknowledges a related development: Shakespeare on film is now seen in post-theatrical release not only on video but on DVD as well, and DVDs are seen both on television screens as well as computer screens. 2
