King John (1899) -- film adaptation of Shakespeare's King John

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Kaitlyn Culliton (Trinity College Dublin)

Ed. by Ema Vyroubalova, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Domains

Cinema/ Film/ TV

Dates

Date of occurrence c.1591- c.1591

Places

England (Location; Involved)

Genres and Modes

Adaptation
Drama

Resources

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Adapted from William Shakespeare’s

King John

. Directed by William Kennedy Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando. Starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Dora Senior. Black and white. British Mutoscope and Biograph company, 1899. Digitally remastered from the Original 35mm Nitrate Materials by the British Film Institute’s National Film and Television Archive, 1999.

This first cinematic Shakespearean adaptation by the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company (BMBC) now only survives in fragmentary form. The original film premiered at the Palace Theatre of Varieties on September 20, 1899. Its premiere ran concurrently with the opening night of Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s stage production at Her Majesty’s Theatre, from which the film derives. In its initial release the film was composed of

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Citation: Culliton, Kaitlyn. "King John (1899) -- film adaptation of Shakespeare's King John". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 October 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19572, accessed 23 November 2024.]