Part one of term paper
In her essay “Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective,” Catherine Belsey argues for the incapability of film to offer the multiple interpretations that the Elizabethan stage presented. “Film is the apotheosis of the modern, and it is in this sense that it inevitably narrows the plurality of an Elizabethan text.” However, K ...

Part two of term paper
... limitations of film and using Branagh’s Henry V, retort film’s great ability to reveal truth. Shakespeare asks a question similar to the one posed by Belsey in the prologue of the first act. “Can this cock-pit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?” (11-14) Branagh chooses to display his single-man chorus walking through a torn-down theater while speaking these words. I do not think he does th ...