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Illustrating an obsession with Shakespeare
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Turning great novels into film is a notoriously difficult task. Conversely,
some badly written books have been turned into good movies.The challenge
taken up by some 20th-century filmmakers to bring great prose fiction
to the screen was prefigured by attempts by 18th-and 19th-century
painters to give permanent visual form to the plays and characters
of England's greatest writer of all, Shakespeare. The endeavors of
this pre-celluloid age to translate one medium into another are the
focus of a well-selected and entertaining exhibition, ''Shakespeare
in Art,'' which ...
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