"Bypaths and indirect crooked ways": mise-en-scene in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight. From: Shakespeare Bulletin | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of West Georgia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The restoration of Orson Welles's trilogy of Shakespeare films--beginning with Macbeth (1948) and Othello (1952)--remains incomplete in the absence of a definitive video edition of Chimes at Midnight (1966), whose inaccessibility and checkered history of critical disregard and flawed preservation have achieved near-legendary status. As Welles begins to emerge posthumously from an obscurity of dismissive rhetoric and neglect as cinema's earliest and definitive auteur (he presciently told Peter Bogdanovich before succumbing to heart disease in 1985, "God, how they'll love me when ...

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