Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Brush Up Your Shakespeare

More than 420 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays have been produced, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language.

Some are faithful to the original story and text, while others are adaptations that use only the plots rather than his dialogue.Some Shakespeare. (Wikipedia)

SOME SHAKESPEARE

Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)

The Reduced Shakespeare Company (2000) 

Shakespeare Re-Told (2005) 

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (2005)

Hamlets

Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's Hamlet have been made since 1900

Laurence Olivier  (1948)

Grigori Kozintsev  (1964)

Tony Richardson  (1969)

Main article: Hamlet (1969) The first Hamlet filmed in color.

Franco Zeffirelli  (1990) stars Mel Gibson as the Dane, with Glenn Close as Gertrude

Kenneth Branagh  (1996)

Michael Almereyda, (2000) stars Ethan Hawke, who plays Hamlet as a film student.

Romeo and Juliet  

George Cukor (1936)

Renato Castellani (1954)

Franco Zeffirelli (1968)

Baz Luhrmann (1996) 

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935,1999)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Macbeth (1948)  Orson Welles

Macbeth (UK, 2010)

Richard III (1955,1995)

Henry V (1944,1989) 

  

The Taming of the Shrew (1929,1967)  

Othello (1952,1965)

Julius Caesar  (1953)  Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

The Tempest (2010) PG-13

King Lear (1953, 1971,1974)

The Merchant of Venice (1972,2001,2004)  

Twelfth Night (1969,1996) 

The Winter's Tale (1981)  

As You Like It (1936,2006)