Shakespeare

It's What's for Dinner

Authors

  • Amy Scott-Douglass Marymount University

Abstract

Cluster: Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective

Edited by Alexa Huang

Although the title of The Banquet (2006) suggests a large, public, celebratory meal, there is a noticeable lack of food in the film itself. Rather than cinematic representations of food, the film serves up a feast of Shakespearean references, including allusions to Hamlet, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Othello, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet, as well as various of the history and Roman plays. While both The Banquet and The Celebration (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) share a sense of themselves as national films working within an international market and a similar philosophy of Shakespearean borrowing, they differ in their philosophies of filmmaking.

Author Biography

Amy Scott-Douglass, Marymount University

Amy Scott-Douglass is Assistant Professor of Literature at Marymount University. She is the author of Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars (Continuum, 2007); the "Theater" section of Shakespeares after Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture (Greenwood, 2006); and several essays on early modern women, and film and stage adaptations of Renaissance drama.

ssue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2009. Image: Two dancers from a still from The Banquet pose with their faces close together.

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Published

2009-05-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2009): Spring/Summer

Section

Articles