Which of these popular movie adaptations of Shakespeare plays would you choose to see in the next few weeks?
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The Taming of the Shrew, (1929 - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
Romeo and Juliet, (1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1935)
As You Like It, (1936). Directed by Paul Czinner.
Henry V, (1945). Directed by Lawrence Olivier.
Macbeth, (1948). Directed by Orson Welles
Hamlet, (1948). Directed. by Lawrence Olivier.
Othello, (1952). Directed by Orson Welles.
Julius Caesar, (1953). Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Romeo and Juliet, (1954). Directed by Renato Castellani.
Richard III, (1955). Directed by Lawrence Olivier.
Othello, (1956). Directed by Sergei Jutkevitsh.
Forbidden Planet (based on The Tempest), (1956)
Throne of Blood / The Castle of the Spider's Web / Cobweb Castle (1957), (derived from Macbeth).
The Tempest (1960), (TV) starring Richard Burton.
Hamlet (1964), starring Richard Burton.
Hamlet, (1964), directed by Grigori Kozintsev.
The Taming of the Shrew, (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Romeo and Juliet, (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
King Lear, (1970), directed by Peter Brook.
King Lear, (1970), directed by Grigori Kozintsev.
Macbeth, (1972), directed by Roman Polanski .
Antony and Cleopatra, (1974), starring Patrick Stewart and Ben Kingsley.
Comedy of Errors (1978), starring Judi Dench and Francesca Annis and directed by Philip Casson and Trevor Nunn.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, (1980), (BBC-TV) starring Patrick Stewart and directed by Rodney Bennett.
The Merry Wives of Windsor, (1982), (BBC-TV), starring Ben Kingsley and directed by David Hugh Jones.
The Tempest, (1982), directed by Paul Mazursky.
Ran (1985), (based on King Lear), directed by Akira Kurosawa.
King Lear, (1987), directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Henry V, (1989), directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Romeo and Juliet, (1990), starring Francesca Annis, Vanessa Redgrave and Ben Kingsley.
Hamlet, (1991), directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
Prospero's Books, (1991), (based on The Tempest), directed by Peter Greeneway.
As You Like It, (1992), directed by Christine Edzard.
Much Ado about Nothing, (1993), directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Othello, (1995), directed by Oliver Parker.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, (1996), starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes.
Hamlet, (1996), starring Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough, Judi Dench, Billy Crystal and Kate Winslet.
Twelfth Night, (1996), starring Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Imogen Stubbs and Mel Smith.
Looking for Richard, (1996), directed by Al Pacino.
Shakespeare in Love, (1998), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush and Judi Dench. Directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. Loosely inspired by Cesario / Viola of Twelfth Night Or What You Will and Romeo and Juliet.
10 Things I Hate About You, (1999), (based on The Taming of the Shrew), starring Julia Stiles and Heather Ledge. Directed by Gil Junger.
A Midsummer’s Night's Dream, (1999), starring Calista Flockhart, Michelle Pfiffer. Directed by Michael Hoffman.
Love's Labour’s Lost, (2000), directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Hamlet 2000, starring Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Kyle MacLachlan. Directed by Michael Almereyda.