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30 Shakespeare in Czechoslovakia: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Coriolanus on the Operatic Stage
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Henry V Henry V
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Hamlet Hamlet
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38 ‘Genuine attempts at enlarging the scope of film’: William Walton’s and Laurence Olivier’s Shakespeare Trilogy
Get accessBrian Hoyle is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Humanities, at the University of Dundee. His publications include The Cinema of John Boorman (Scarecrow Press, 2012).
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Published:14 February 2022
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Abstract
Although they collaborated fully on only three feature films, the partnership of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir William Walton remains one of the great filmmaker‒composer partnerships, one which bears comparison with the teaming of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, or Federico Fellini and Nino Rota. The chapter draws on primary source materials in both the Walton archive at Yale University and the Olivier papers at the British Library in order to undertake a close reading of the scores for Henry V (1945), Hamlet (1948),and Richard III (1955) and assesses the ways in which Walton’s music complements and counterpoints both Shakespeare’s texts and Olivier’s editing, acting, and mise-en-scène. Comparisons are drawn between Walton’s film scoring practices and those of such prominent contemporaries as Sergei Prokofiev and Max Steiner, as well as more recent film composers such as Patrick Doyle. The chapter also situates the scores within the wider context of 1940s and 1950s British film and film music, and confirms filmmaker Michael Powell’s assertion that this trilogy represented a genuine attempt to enlarge the scope of film as an art form through its complex combination of words, music, cinematography, and design.
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