From the film editor.(Orson Welles)

From: Shakespeare Bulletin | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Introduction: Orson Welles and Shakespeare on Film

Unabridged? Never! I cut, cut, cut, oh yes. (1)

Yes. Of course, there's nothing can be done without Shakespeare--you can't put a play on the screen. I don't believe in that--I don't think Shakespeare would have believed in it. He would have made a great movie writer. (2)

Like Gus Van Sant's 1991 My Own Private Idaho and Oliver Parker's 1995 Othello, the December 2004 release of Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice once again conjured up the elusive specter of Orson Welles. Thirty-five years earlier in 1969, Welles ...

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