Biography

Mark THORNTON BURNETT
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Constructing ‘Monsters’ in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007; 2nd ed. 2012) and Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), the co-author of Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), the editor of The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe (London: Dent, 1999) and The Complete Poems of Christopher Marlowe (London: Everyman, 2000), and the co-editor of New Essays on ‘Hamlet’ (New York: AMS Press, 1994), Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), Filming and Performing Renaissance History (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011) and The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
Bibliography
Authored Books
- Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1997).
- Constructing ‘Monsters’ in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Basingstoke and London: Palgrave, 2002).
- Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Basingstoke and London: Palgrave, 2007; 2nd ed. 2012).
- Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
- Great Shakespeareans: Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli, with Courtney Lehmann, Marguerite H. Rippy and Ramona Wray (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
Edited Books
- Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle, edited with Ramona Wray (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 2000).
- Shakespeare on Screen in the Twenty-First Century, edited with Ramona Wray (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
- Filming and Performing Renaissance History, edited with Adrian Streete (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011).
- The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, edited with Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
Journal Articles
- ‘The “very cunning of the scene”: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet’, Literature/Film Quarterly, 25.2 (1997), pp. 78-82, reprinted in James M. Welsh, Richard Vela and John C. Tibbets, eds, Shakespeare into Film (New York: Checkmark Books, 2002), pp. 113-116.
- ‘“Fancy’s Images”: Reinventing Shakespeare in Christine Edzard’s The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Literature/Film Quarterly, 30.3 (2002), pp. 166-70.
- ‘“To hear and see the matter”: Communicating Technology in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet’, Cinema Journal, 42.3 (2003), pp. 48-69.
- ‘Writing Shakespeare in the Global Economy’, Shakespeare Survey, 58 (2005), pp. 185-98.
- ‘Madagascan Will: Cinematic Shakespeares/Transnational Exchanges’, Shakespeare Survey, 61 (2008), pp. 239-255.
- ‘Applying the Paradigm: Shakespeare and World Cinema’, Shakespeare Studies, 38 (2010), pp. 114-122.
- ‘Screen Shakespeares: Knowledge and Practice’, Critical Quarterly, 52.4 (2010), pp. 48-62.
- ‘Shakespeare and Contemporary Latin American Cinema’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 62.3 (2011), pp. 396-419.
Chapters in Books
- ‘Impressions of Fantasy: Adrian Noble’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, in Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, eds, Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 89-101, reprinted in Lynn M. Zott, ed., Shakespearean Criticism, 70 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2003), pp. 152-7.
- ‘From the Horse’s Mouth: Branagh on the Bard’ (with Ramona Wray), in Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, eds, Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 165-78
- ‘“We are the makers of manners”: The Branagh Phenomenon’, in Richard Burt, ed., Shakespeare After Mass Media (Basingstoke and London: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 83-105
- ‘Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies’, in Richard Dutton and Jean Howard, eds, The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare: The Tragedies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 262-83
- ‘Intertextual Dialogues: Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing and Michael Hoffman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, in Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, eds,Shakespeare on Screen: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Rouen: Publications de l’Université de Rouen, 2004), pp. 179-200
- ‘Local Macbeth/Global Shakespeare: Scotland’s Filmic Destiny’, in Andrew Murphy and Willy Maley, eds, Shakespeare and Scotland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 189-206
- ‘Parodying with Richard’, in Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, eds, Shakespeare on Screen: ‘Richard III’ (Rouen: Publications de l’Université de Rouen, 2005), pp. 91-112
- ‘Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy’, in Diana E. Henderson, ed., A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 133-54
- ‘“I see my father” with “my mind’s eye”: Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet’, in Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, eds, Shakespeare on Screen in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp. 31-52
- ‘“Parties in Converse”: ‘Literary’ and ‘Economic’ Dialogue in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet’, in Susan Bruce and Valeria Wagner, eds, Fiction and Economy: Dissonant Exchanges (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), pp. 98-113.
- ‘Shakespeare Exhibition and Festival Culture’, in Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray, eds, The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 445-463.