William „koło ratunkowe” Szekspir
William "Live Preserver" Shakespeare

Summary/Abstract: A review of Olga Katafiasz's book Shakespeare and the Cinema: Adaptation Strategies and Their Socio-cultural Contexts (PWST, Krakow 2012). The author points out the originality of the premises and Katafiasz's research methods (of which there are as many as there are films analyzed), analyzing the films by entering a dialogue with Shakespeare's work. She takes as her compasses the intuitive thoughts of Harold Bloom and Peter Brook on the phenomenon of Shakespeare's "energy." Uszyńska focuses on what she sees as the most interesting chapters: the first (on Midsummer Night's Dream by Maks Reinhardt and William Dieterle in 1935) and the last (describing two versions of the comedy To Be or Not to Be – by Ernst Lubitsch in 1941 and Alan Johnson in 1983).

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