Leonardo Dicaprio Modern Day Romeo

An introduction to the life of young film star Leonardo DiCaprio.

A biography of actor Leonardo DiCaprio, providing details about his personal life, and tracing his career from appearances in commercials to starring roles in major feature films.

In 1997, James Cameron's "Titanic", became the first motion picture to earn a billion dollars worldwide. These essays ask the question: What made "Titanic" such a popular movie? Why has this film become a cultural and film phenomenon? What makes it so fascinating to the film-going public?

Since the late 1990s, Leonardo DiCaprio has been the most prominent celebrity environmental activist in the United States. This book takes a closer look at the events in DiCaprio’s life that led him to become to be an activist and also discusses his current environmental activities. In addition, the book examines DiCaprio’s recent environmental film, The Eleventh Hour, and looks ahead to future environment-related projects the young screen star has lined up.

This year's volume is devoted to the theme of Shakespeare and the Globe, including the original Globe, playhouse of Shakespeare's time, the new Globe Theatre on Bankside and the notion of a global Shakespeare.

"Charts the star's meteoric rise to fame and delves beneath his polished Hollywood image to examine just what makes him tick." -- Back cover.

Ghostly Fragments gathers the essays of the late Barbara C. Hodgdon, a renowned scholar of Shakespeare and performance studies. Her influential publications over thirty years reflected a remarkable intelligence, wit, and originality, as did her lectures and conference papers. Richard Abel and Peter Holland have selected essays that represent the wide sweep of Hodgdon’s scholarship, including unpublished pieces and those from hard-to-access sources. The essays reveal a thinker and writer who grows more self-reflective over time, with a distinctive, engaging, often wryly humorous voice that is accessible even to nonspecialist readers. Following a general introduction by Peter Holland, the book’s five subsections (Teaching Shakespeare, Analyzing Stage Performances, Editing Shakespeare Texts, Analyzing Shakespeare Films, and “Shopping” in the Archives) are introduced in turn by scholars Miriam Gilbert, W.B. Worthen, Margaret Jane Kidnie, Richard Abel, and Pascale Aebischer. Collectively, the pieces confirm the originality and élan of Hodgdon’s thinking and writing over time, and reveal her as a natural essayist and stylist, with a distinctive engaging voice. The collection is unique in not only bringing together so much of Hodgdon's work in one place (with an extensive bibliography of her published work) but also in demonstrating how groundbreaking and influential that work has been in the field.