This is very sad news. I loved helping, working with and just
chatting with Ken and admired hugely his energy and dedication towards a good
cause. His Shakespeare on Screen filmography was a stupendous undertaking, while
the Shakespeare on Film Newsletter was always an inspiration, especially at a
time when the words Shakespeare and Film were considered to be alien to one
another by too many scholars. And he published my first scholarly article
too.
Luke
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Dr Luke McKernan
Lead Curator, Moving Image
Sound & Vision
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7442
Fax: 020 7412 7441
For those who have not heard, Ken Rothwell has passed away. Ken was
one of the founders of Shakespeare film scholarship, and with Bernice L. Kliman
edited
The Shakespeare on Film Newsletter for nearly 20 years. As
editor, he helped get my first scholarly article into print. He was the author
of
A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television
(Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2004), published in two editions, and more. You may
find his obituary here:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/obituary.aspx?n=kenneth-sprague-rothwell&pid=146539964all
the best,
Mike Jensen
author site:
www.michaelpjensen.com 
