Meanings
nounbox-office (countable and uncountable, plural box-offices)
plural box-offices
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of box office.
The modern director who turned Shakespeare into good box-office is Kenneth Branagh with his Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and, to a lesser extent, Hamlet (1996) and Love’s Labours Lost (2000).
2007, Oliver Ford Davies, “Acting on Film”, in Performing Shakespeare, London: Nick Hern Books, →ISBN, part 4 (Rehearsal), pages 136–137
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