Berthomieu, Pierre <br/><br/>
William Shakespeare as Seen by Kenneth Branagh: Challenges and Critiques of an Appropriation 

 -  2002.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This article analyses how director Kenneth Branagh appropriates Shakespeare’s plays, and inserts them into a personal filmic world dominated by visual and musical sweep. By adding images from the past and from the mind, Branagh creates characters who are endowed with memories and thoughts. His adaptations oscillate between the powerful exhibition of interpolations and the creation of a realistic diegesis, following a Hollywoodian aesthetics which favours logical links and nostalgic reminders. Shakespearean meta-drama then tends to melt away into a fiction in which narrative construction prevails over the disclosure of enunciation.