The '' Guinness Book of Records'' lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

s plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. , the

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lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,500 films, including those under production but not yet released. The earliest known production is '' King John'' from 1899.

Comedies

''All's Well That Ends Well''

''As You Like It''

''The Comedy of Errors''

} , Film , , 1963 , , , The film relocates the story to modern day India. The film tells the story of a

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merchant from

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

and his servant who visit a small town for a business appointment, but, whilst there, are mistaken for a pair of locals, leading to much confusion. It is based on an 1869 play by

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century ...

, which is itself based on ''The Comedy of Errors''. ''Bhranti Bilas'' was remade in 1968 as the musical comedy ''

Do Dooni Char ''Do Dooni Char'' () is a 1968 Bollywood musical, which is a remake of the 1963 Bengali film ''Bhrantibilas'' based on the 1869 play of same name by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar which was loosely based on William Shakespeare's ''The Comedy of Err ...

'', which in turn was later remade as '' Angoor''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "The Comedy of Errors"
(

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) , TV , , 1967 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1968 , , , A musical comedy

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adaptation based on the 1963 film ''

Bhranti Bilas ''Bhranti Bilas'' () is a 1963 Bengali-language comedy film based on the 1869 play of the same name by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's ''The Comedy of Errors''. The film starring and produced Uttam Kum ...

'', which in turn was based on an 1869 play by

, which is itself based on ''The Comedy of Errors''. ''Do Dooni Char'' was later remade as '' Angoor''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Comedy of Errors'' , TV , , 1978 , , , A TV adaptation of a musical based on the play, with a book and lyrics by

Trevor Nunn Sir Trevor Robert Nunn (born 14 January 1940) is a British theatre director. He has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas ...

and music by

Guy Woolfenden Guy Anthony Woolfenden (12 July 1937 – 15 April 2016) was an English composer and conductor. Biography Woolfenden was born in Ipswich and educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, London, and Whitgift School, Croydon. He studied music a ...

. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Angoor''
( hi, अंगूर, lit=Grape) , Film , , 1982 , , , A

adaptation, based on the 1968 film ''

'', which was based on the 1963 film ''

'', which in turn was based on an 1869 play by

, which is itself based on ''The Comedy of Errors''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "

The Comedy of Errors ''The Comedy of Errors'' is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. ...

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BBC Television Shakespeare The ''BBC Television Shakespeare'' is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television. Transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985, it ...

'') , TV , , 1983 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Comedy of Errors'' , TV , , 1987 , , , Videotaped as part of

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's ''

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'' series at

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, this production starring

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combined Shakespeare with slapstick, acrobatics and juggling on the basis that "in Ephesus, you juggle or die!" with Shakespeare himself taking part in the action. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Comedy of Errors'' , TV , , 1989 , , ,

''Love's Labour's Lost''

''Measure for Measure''

} , Film , , 1943 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , " Measure For Measure"
(''

'') , TV , , 1979 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Measure for Measure'' , TV , , 1994 , , , Modern dress version of Shakespeare's "problem comedy" emphasizing the darker elements of the play and eliminating most of the humor. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Measure for Measure'' , Film , , 2006 , , , Contemporary re-working of Shakespeare's problem play set in the British army. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''M4M: Measure for Measure'' , Film , , 2015 , , , All-male cast version , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Measure For Measure'' , Film , , 2019 , , , Adaptation set in modern-day Australia

''The Merchant of Venice''

} , Film , , 2002 , , , The play was translated into

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in 1945 by

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, and his translation is used for the film. It is the first Māori-language film adaptation of any of

Shakespeare's plays Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays—as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise—is a ...

, and the first feature length Māori film. The film was shot in

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, but "recreates 16th century Venice, with costumes and surroundings to fit the original setting". , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

The Merchant of Venice ''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Although classified as ...

'' , Film , , 2004 , , ,

''The Merry Wives of Windsor''

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Sunday Night Theatre ''Sunday Night Theatre'' was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, pa ...

'') , TV , , 1952 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Chimes at Midnight ''Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)'' ( Spanish: ''Campanadas a medianoche'') is a 1966 period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Orson Welles. The Spanish-Swiss co-production was released in the United States as ''Chimes at Midnight'' an ...

'' , Film , , 1966 , , , Welles said that the core of the film's story was "the betrayal of friendship." The script contains text from five of Shakespeare]'s plays: primarily '' Henry IV, Part 1'' and '' Henry IV, Part 2'', but also '' Richard II'' and ''

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'', as well as some dialogue from '' The Merry Wives of Windsor''. Richardson's narration is taken from the works of chronicler

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. Welles had previously produced a Broadway adaptation of nine Shakespeare plays called ''Five Kings'' in 1939. In 1960, he revived this project in

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as ''Chimes at Midnight'', which was his final on-stage performance. Neither of these plays was successful, but Welles considered portraying Falstaff to be his life's ambition and turned the project into a film. In order to get initial financing, Welles lied to producer Emiliano Piedra about adapting ''

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'', and keeping the film funded during production was a constant struggle. Welles shot ''Chimes at Midnight'' throughout

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between 1964 and 1965; it premiered at the

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, winning two awards. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' , TV , , 1970 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , " The Merry Wives of Windsor"
(''

'') , TV , , 1982 , , , Jones originally wanted to shoot the episode in Stratford-upon-Avon but was restricted to a studio setting. Determined that the production be as realistic as possible, he had designer Dom Homfray base the set on real Tudor houses associated with Shakespeare: Falstaff's room is based on the home of Mary Arden (Shakespeare's mother) in

Wilmcote Wilmcote is a village, and since 2004 a separate civil parish, in the English county of Warwickshire, about north of Stratford-upon-Avon. Prior to 2004, it was part of the same parish as Aston Cantlow, and the 2001 population for the whole are ...

, and the wives' houses are based on the house of Shakespeare's daughter Susanna, and her husband,

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. For the background of exterior shots, he used a miniature Tudor village built of

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''A Midsummer Night's Dream''

} , Silent , , 1925 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' , Film , , 1935 , , , Austrian-born director Max Reinhardt did not speak English at the time of production. He gave orders to the actors and crew in

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with

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acting as his interpreter. The film was banned in

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because of the Jewish backgrounds of Reinhardt and composer Felix Mendelssohn. Filming had to be rearranged after Rooney broke his leg while skiing. According to Rooney's memoirs, Jack L. Warner was furious and threatened to kill him and then break his other leg. This was the film debut of

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. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''
( cs, Sen noci svatojánské) , Film , , 1959 , , , An animated puppet film directed by

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. It was an Official Selection as a Feature Film at the

1959 Cannes Film Festival The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from 30 April to 15 May 1959. The Palme d'Or went to the ''Orfeu Negro'' by Marcel Camus. The festival opened with '' Les Quatre Cents Coups'', directed by François Truffaut and closed with ''The Diary of An ...

, and won special distinction. An English-language dubbed version was made with narration by

Richard Burton Richard Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable pe ...

. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' , Film , , 1968 , , , The film premiered in theatres in Europe in September 1968. In the U.S., it was sold directly to television rather than playing in theatres, and premiered as a Sunday evening special, on the night of 9 February 1969. It was shown on

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(with commercials). , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''
(french: Le Songe d'une nuit d'été) , TV , , 1969 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , " A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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'') , TV , , 1980 , , , Released in the US as part of the ''Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare'' series. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Dream of a Summer Night''
( it, Sogno di una Notte d'Estate) , Film , , 1983 , , , Based on a

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directed by Salvatores, it is a musical adaptation. It was screened in the "De Sica" section at the 40th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , " A Midsummer Night's Dream"
('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1992 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' , Film , , 1999 , , , ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' was filmed on location in

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and

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, and at

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. The action of the play was transported from

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, to a fictional Monte Athena, located in the Tuscan region of

, although all textual mentions of Athens were retained. The film made use of Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for an 1843 stage production (including the famous ''

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''), alongside operatic works from Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti,

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and

Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...

. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream'' , Film , , 2001 , , , In this version, a group of school children are attending a puppet performance of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' when they are drawn into the story and become the characters, dressed in Elizabethan costumes. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Get Over It'' , Film , , 2001 , , , A contemporary adaptation set at a

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which includes ''another'' version of the play performed as a show-within-a-show, much like the ''

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'' subplay in the original Shakespeare. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

A Midsummer Night's Rave ''A Midsummer Night's Rave'' is a 2002 American film adapted from Shakespeare's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' released on November 1, 2002. The film stars Corey Pearson, Lauren German, Andrew Keegan, Chad Lindberg, and Sunny Mabrey; and was di ...

'' , Film , , 2002 , , , A modern adaptation set at a warehouse party , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

Midsummer Dream ''Midsummer Dream'' ( es, El Sueño de una noche de San Juan, lit=A Dream of a Night of Saint John) is a 2005 computer-animated film from Dygra Films, the creators of ''The Living Forest''. Made in Spain and Portugal, the film is loosely based on ...

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( es, El Sueño de una Noche de San Juan) , Film , , 2005 , , , An animated adaptation of the ''Cream'' story. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
, TV , , 2005 , , , a modern adaptation , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Were the World Mine ''Were the World Mine'' is a 2008 romantic musical fantasy film directed by Tom Gustafson, written by Gustafson and Cory James Krueckeberg, and starring Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane, Zelda Williams, Jill Larson, Ricky Goldman, Natha ...

'' , Film , , 2008 , , , The film, inspired by the play, prominently features a modern, LGBT interpretation of the play put on in a private high school in a small town. Additionally, this musical's lyrics are largely based on Shakespeare's original text. For example, the title comes from a line in a song, drawn from a line in a play, "Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated / The rest I'd give to be to you translated." , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' 10ml LOVE'' , Film , , 2010 , , , A Hindi romantic comedy concerning the tribulations of a love quadrangle during a night of magic and madness and a contemporary adaptation of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' , Film , , 2015 , , , Recording of a production at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn, New York. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Strange Magic'' , Film , , 2015 , , , A computer-animated musical

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film with feature animation by

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and Industrial Light & Magic. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' , TV , , 2016 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' , Film , , 2018 , , , A modern-day version set against the backdrop of Hollywood, CA.

''Much Ado About Nothing''

''The Taming of the Shrew''

} , Film , , 1963 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

The Taming of the Shrew ''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...

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( it, La Bisbetica domata) , Film , , 1967 , , , "A bawdy and boisterous production which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance." , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , TV , , 1973 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Taming of the Shrew'' , TV , , 1973 , , , Videotaped broadcast of the

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American Conservatory Theater presenting Shakespeare's classic take with a Commedia dell'arte flair, as if it were an inn yard performance by a traveling company. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , '' The Taming of the Scoundrel''
( it, Il Bisbetico Domato) , Film , , 1980 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "

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'') , TV , , 1980 , , , Released in the US as part of the ''Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare'' series. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Kiss Me, Petruchio'' , TV , , 1981 , , , Documentary following actress Streep and actor Julia as they prepare to perform and actually perform Shakespeare's comedy ''The Taming of the Shrew'' for the "

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" theater festival in

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, New York. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Taming of the Shrew''
(''The Shakespeare Collection'') , Video , , 1983 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Atomic Shakespeare"
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'') , TV , , 1986 , , , First aired on 25 November 1986, the episode presented the play through multiple fourth-wall layers with a self-referential frame tale, in which a young fan of the TV show has a Shakespeare reading assignment and imagines it as presented by the show's regular cast. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , '' Nanjundi Kalyana''
( kn, ನಂಜುಂಡಿ ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ, lit=Nanjundi's marriage) , Film , , 1989 , , , An adaptation based on Parvathavani's

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drama which was a translation of the play. The film was among the biggest grossing Kannada films of 1989, and was remade in Telugu as '' Mahajananiki Maradalu Pilla'' (1990). , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , '' Mahajananiki Maradalu Pilla''
( te, మహాజనానికి మరదలు పిల్ల, lit=A child of neglect) , Film , , 1990 , , , A remake of the

film '' Nanjundi Kalyana'' (1989). , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "

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('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1994 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

10 Things I Hate About You ''10 Things I Hate About You'' is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirs ...

'' , Film , , 1999 , , , A modernization of the play, retold in a late-1990s American

setting. New student Cameron is smitten with Bianca and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' The Carnation and the Rose''
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O Cravo e a Rosa ''O Cravo e a Rosa'' ( en, The Thorn and the Rose) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 26 June 2000 and ran until 10 March 2001. It is based on the Shakespearean comedy ''The Taming of the Shrew''. Plot ...

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, , 2000–1 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Deliver Us from Eva ''Deliver Us from Eva'' is a 2003 American romantic comedy film starring LL Cool J and Gabrielle Union, revolving around LL's character Ray being paid to date a troublesome young lady named Eva (Union). It is considered by many as a modern update ...

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The Taming of The Shrew ''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...

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'') , TV , , 2005 , , , A modern adaptation by

Sally Wainwright Sally Anne Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director from Yorkshire. Early in her career, Wainwright worked as a playwright, and as a scriptwriter on the long-running radio serial drama ''The Archers''. In t ...

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Frivolous Wife ''Frivolous Wife'' is a 2008 South Korean romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew''. Plot Cheon Yeon-soo is a beautiful, hot-headed college girl whose family became millionaires overnight. She was raised by a ...

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''Twelfth Night''

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Twelfth Night ''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vi ...

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'' , Film , , 1986 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , TV , , 1988 , , , Music by

Patrick Doyle Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish film composer with Irish heritage. A longtime collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work composing for films such as ''Henry V'', '' Sense and Sensibility'', ''Haml ...

and

Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One ...

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('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1992 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1996 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Twelfth Night, or What You Will'' , TV , , 2003 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

She's the Man ''She's the Man'' is a 2006 American romantic comedy teen sports film directed by Andy Fickman and starring Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, and David Cross. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Twelfth Night,'' t ...

'' , Film , , 2006 , , , Adapts the story to a high-school setting. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Twelfth Night'' , Film , , 2013 , , , "Globe on Screen": All-male cast in an "original practice" production.

''The Two Gentlemen of Verona''

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, , 1931 , , , The film is noted for its attempted "Westernized stylings" including its surreal use of decor, women-soldiers with long hair, etc. The film also had English-subtitles, but as some scholars have noted, since few foreigners watched these films, the subtitles were more to give off an air of the West rather than to serve any real purpose. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "

The Two Gentlemen of Verona ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying ...

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Tragedies

''Antony and Cleopatra''

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, , 1913 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Antony and Cleopatra'' , TV , , 1959 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Antony and Cleopatra'' , Film , , 1972 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Antony and Cleopatra'' , TV , , 1974 , , , An adaptation of

's Royal Shakespeare Company production. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , " Antony & Cleopatra"
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'') , TV , , 1981 , , , Released in the US as part of the ''Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare'' series. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Kannaki Kannagi ( ta, கண்ணகி) sometimes spelled Kannaki, is a legendary Tamil woman who forms the central character of the Tamil epic ''Cilappatikaram''. Kannagi is described as the chaste woman who stays with her husband despite his unfai ...

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''Coriolanus''

''Hamlet''

} , Film , , 1900 , , , Believed to have been the earliest film adaptation of the play. The film is two minutes in length. It also was one of the first films to employ the newly discovered art of pre-recording the actors' voices, then playing the recording simultaneous to the playing of the film. So, while produced during the

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

era, the film is technically not a silent film. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

'' , Silent , , 1907 , , , The first multi-scene cinematic adaptation of any work by Shakespeare. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Silent , , 1908 , , , One of twelve renditions of the play produced during the silent film era. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Silent , , 1912 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Silent , , 1913 , , , Made by the Hepworth Company and based on the

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's 1913 staging of the work. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

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( it, Amleto) , Silent , , 1917 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Silent , , 1921 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Blood for Blood''
( ur, Khoon Ka Khoon) , Film , , 1935 , , , Cited as one of the earliest talkie adaptations. Credited as "the man who brought Shakespeare to the Indian screen", it was Modi's debut feature film as a director. The story and script were by Mehdi Hassan Ahsan from his Urdu adaptation of ''Hamlet''. ''Khoon Ka Khoon'' was the debut in films of

Naseem Banu Naseem Banu (4 July 1916 – 18 June 2002) was an Indian actress. She was referred to as Naseem and known as "Beauty Queen" and the "first female superstar" of Indian Cinema. Starting her acting career in the mid-1930s she continued to act t ...

. ''Khoon Ka Khoon'' was a "filmed version of a stage performance of the play". The film has been cited by National Film Archive of India founder P K. Nair, as one of "most wanted" missing Indian cinema treasures. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1948 , , , Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of the three Shakespeare films that he directed. ''Hamlet'' was the first British film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is also the first

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of the play in English. Olivier's ''Hamlet'' is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the

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for

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and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the

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. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

I, Hamlet ''I, Hamlet'' (Italian: ''Io, Amleto'') is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Erminio Macario, Franca Marzi and Rossana Podestà. A parody of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Hamlet'', its lack of commercial suc ...

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( it, Io, Amleto) , Film , , 1952 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

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( ur, हेमलेट) , Film , , 1954 , , , Sahu was influenced by "classic European sources". Though termed a "free adaptation" in the credit roll of the film, Sahu stayed true to the title, its setting, and the original names in the play, remaining as close as possible to Olivier's 1948 film. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

'' , TV , , 1959 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

The Bad Sleep Well is a 1960 Japanese crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Toshiro ...

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( ja, 悪い奴ほどよく眠る, translit=Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) , Film , , 1960 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

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(german: Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark) , TV , , 1961 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Ophelia Ophelia () is a character in William Shakespeare's drama '' Hamlet'' (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends u ...

'' , Film , , 1963 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

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( rus, Гамлет, r=Gamlet) , Film , , 1964 , , , Based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, and with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich. Both Kozintsev and the film itself gained prominence among adaptations of the play, and Smoktunovsky is considered one of the great cinematic Hamlets. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1964 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Hamlet at Elsinore ''Hamlet at Elsinore'' is a 1964 television version of the c. 1600 play by William Shakespeare. Produced by the BBC in association with Danish Radio, it was shown in the U.S. on NET. Winning wide acclaim both for its performances and for being sh ...

'' , TV , , 1964 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''

Johnny Hamlet ''Johnny Hamlet'' ( it, Quella sporca storia nel West, lit=That Dirty Story in the West is a 1968 Italian film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. The film is a Spaghetti Western version of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Hamlet''. Plot Johnny Hamil ...

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( it, Quella sporca storia nel West, lit=That Dirty Story in the West) , Film , , 1968 , , , A Spaghetti Western version. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1969 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , '' One Hamlet Less''
( it, Un Amleto di meno) , Film , , 1973 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , TV , , 1974 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , '' The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet''
( tr, İntikam Meleği – Kadın Hamlet) , Film , , 1977 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

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Strange Brew ''Strange Brew'' (also known as ''The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew'') is a 1983 Canadian comedy film starring the popular '' SCTV'' characters Bob and Doug McKenzie, portrayed by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served ...

'' , Film , , 1983 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Hamlet Goes Business''
( fi, Hamlet liikemaailmassa) , Film , , 1987 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1990 , , , The movie received two

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nominations, for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design (

Dante Ferretti Dante Ferretti (, born 26 February 1943) is an Italian production designer, art director, and costume designer. Biography Throughout his career, Ferretti has worked with many acclaimed directors, both American and Italian, including; Pier Paolo ...

, Francesca Lo Schiavo). Bates received a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actor for playing Claudius. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , '' Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' , Film , , 1990 , , , Based on Stoppard's play of the same name, the film depicts two minor characters from ''Hamlet'',

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Hamlet''. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of ...

, who find themselves on the road to

Elsinore Castle Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'', Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe and was inscribed on the UNE ...

at the behest of the King of Denmark. They encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence. The movie won the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice International Film Festival. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "

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('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1992 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

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The Lion King ''The Lion King'' is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 32nd Disney animated feature film and the fifth produced during the Disney Renaissance ...

'' , Film , , 1994 , , , An animated epic musical

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, produced by

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and released by

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. It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film. The story takes place within a

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In the Bleak Midwinter "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti, commonly performed as a Christmas carol. The poem was published, under the title "A Christmas Carol", in the January 1872 issue of ''Scribner's Monthly,'' and was first c ...

'' , Film , , 1995 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 1996 , , , The film is notable as the first unabridged theatrical film adaptation, running just over four hours. The play's setting is updated to the 19th century, but its Elizabethan English remains the same. ''Hamlet'' was also the last major dramatic motion picture to be filmed entirely on

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until the release of '' The Master'' (2012). ''Hamlet'' was highly acclaimed by the majority of critics and has been regarded as one of the best Shakespeare film adaptations ever made. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

Let the Devil Wear Black ''Let the Devil Wear Black'' is a 1999 crime thriller film directed by Stacy Title, co-written by Title and her husband, actor Jonathan Penner. The film is a modern retelling of the classic play ''Hamlet''. Background The film is a modern-day ve ...

'' , Film , , 1999 , , , A modern-day version set in

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. All of the language is modern. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''

'' , Film , , 2000 , , , In this version, Claudius becomes King and CEO of "Denmark Corporation", having taken over the firm by killing his brother, Hamlet's father. This adaptation keeps the Shakespearean dialogue but presents a modern setting, with technology such as

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, and Covert listening device, surveillance bugs. For example, the ghost of Hamlet's murdered father first appears on Closed-circuit television, closed-circuit TV. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tragedy of Hamlet'' , Film , , 2002 , , , Film of the stage production mounted at Theatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Director Brook cut about one-third of the text, bringing it down to two hours and 20 minutes without an intermission and rearranging the order of some scenes. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Banquet (2006 film), The Banquet''
( zh, t=夜宴, p=Yè Yàn) , Film , , 2006 , , , A loose adaptation of ''Hamlet'' and Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen's ''Ghosts (play), Ghosts'', set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in 10th century China. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Hamlet (2009 film), Hamlet'' , TV , , 2009 , , , An adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 modern dress, modern-dress stage production. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Tardid''
( fa, تردید, lit=Doubt) , Film , , 2009 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Hamlet (2011 film), Hamlet'' , Film , , 2011 , , , A condensed retelling of the play set in 1940s England. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Karmayogi (2012 film), Karmayogi'' , Film , , 2012 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Haider (film), Haider'' , Film , , 2014 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Lion King (2019 film), The Lion King'' , Film , , 2019 , , , A musical

, produced and released by

. It is a photorealistic computer-animated remake of Disney's The Lion King, traditionally animated 1994 film of the same name. The story takes place within a

of lions in

''Julius Caesar''

''King Lear''

} , Silent , , 1910 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (1916 film), King Lear'' , Silent , , 1916 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Gunasundari Katha''
( te, గుణసుందరి కథ) , Film , , 1949 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (1953 film), King Lear'' , TV , , 1953 , , , Originally presented live, now survives on kinescope. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (1971 UK film), King Lear'' , Film , , 1971 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''King Lear (1971 USSR film), King Lear''
(russian: Король Лир, translit=Korol Lir) , Film , , 1971 , , , The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich composed the score. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "King Lear"
(''

'') , TV , , 1974 , , , Recording of a Shakespeare in the Park (New York City), New York Shakespeare Festival production. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear'' , TV , , 1974 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "BBC Television Shakespeare#King Lear, King Lear"
(''

'') , TV , , 1982 , , , Released in the US as part of the ''Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare'' series. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (1983 TV programme), King Lear'' , TV , , 1983 , , , Elliott set his ''Lear'' in an environment resembling Stonehenge, although the production was entirely shot in a studio. In keeping with the primitive backdrop, this production emphasizes the primitive over the sophisticated. Shakespeare's characters use the clothing, weapons, and technology of the Bronze Age Britain, early Bronze Age rather than the Elizabethan era. Olivier's Lear in this production garnered great acclaim, winning him an Emmy for the performance. It was the last of Olivier's appearances in a Shakespeare play. At 75, he was one of the oldest actors to take on this enormously demanding role. (He had previously played it in 1946 at the Old Vic, without much success.) , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Ran (1985 film), Ran''
( ja, 乱, lit=Chaos) , Film , , 1985 , , , An adaptation of the story in a Japanese setting, ''Ran'' was Kurosawa's last epic, and has often been cited as amongst his finest achievements. With a budget of $11 million, it was the most expensive Cinema of Japan, Japanese film ever produced up to that time. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (1987 film), King Lear'' , Film , , 1987 , , , Adapted as post-Chernobyl disaster science fiction. Rather than reproducing a performance of Shakespeare's play, the film is more concerned with the issues raised by the text, and symbolically explores the relationships between power and virtue, between fathers and daughters, words and images. The film deliberately does not use conventional Hollywood film-making techniques which make a film 'watchable', but instead seeks to alienate and baffle its audience in the manner of Berthold Brecht. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Gypsy Lore''
( hu, Romani kris - Cigánytörvény) , Film , , 1997 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''A Thousand Acres (film), A Thousand Acres'' , Film , , 1997 , , , A modern retelling of the Lear story, from the perspective of the Goneril character (Ginny). , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear'' , TV , , 1997 , , , BBC film of the Royal National Theatre's stage version. It was televised with an accompanying documentary, including interviews with the director and cast. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (1999 film), King Lear'' , Film , , 1999 , , , Apart from Peter Brook's King Lear (1971 UK film), 1971 adaptation, Blessed's is the only other feature-length film adaptation to preserve Shakespeare's verse. Yvonne Griggs, in ''Shakespeare's King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film'' (2009), characterised it as "a very stilted costume drama". , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tragedy of King Lear (screenplay), The Tragedy of King Lear'' , Screenplay , , 2000 , , , An unfilmed screenplay written by Harold Pinter on a commission from Tim Roth. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King of Texas'' , TV , , 2002 , , , A Western adaptation of ''King Lear'', the film takes the plot of the play and places it in the Republic of Texas during the 19th century. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (2008 film), King Lear'' , TV , , 2008 , , , It features the same cast and director as the 2007 Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC production, and started filming only a few days after the final performance at the New London Theatre, at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''King Lear (2018 film), King Lear'' , TV , , 2018 , , , Set in an alternative universe, 21st-century, highly militarised London.

''Macbeth''

}) , Film , , 1951 , , , A film adaptation of the novel ''Vengeance'' by Marie Corelli and ''Macbeth''. The film was shot simultaneously in Tamil language, Tamil and Hindi. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Macbeth (Hallmark Hall of Fame 1954), Macbeth"
(Hallmark Hall of Fame) , TV , , 1954 , , , A live television adaptation telecast in color, but has only been preserved on black-and-white kinescope. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Joe MacBeth'' , Film , , 1955 , , , A modern retelling set in a 1930s American criminal underworld. The film's plot closely follows the original. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Throne of Blood''
( ja, 蜘蛛巣城, translit=Kumonosu-jō, lit=Spider Web Castle) , Film , , 1957 , , , The film transposes the plot from Medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, with stylistic elements drawn from Noh drama. As with the play, the film tells the story of a warrior who assassinates his sovereign at the urging of his ambitious wife. Despite the change in setting and language and numerous creative liberties, in the West ''Throne of Blood'' is often considered one of the best film adaptations of the play. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1960 American film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 1960 , , , A filmed-on-location adaptation with the same two stars and director as the 1954 production. Shown on TV in the US and in theatres in Europe. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1960 Australian film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 1960 , , , The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that the production as "visually efficient" but also "a dreadful warning of what can happen when a producer becomes frightened of a great text... a torrent of gabble and shouting. Some of the most concise dramatic poetry in all Shakespeare received treatment worthy of the race results." , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1961 film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 1961 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1965 film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 1965 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Macbeth"
(''Play of the Month'') , TV , , 1970 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1971 film), Macbeth'' , Film , , 1971 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1979 film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 1978 , , , Videotaped version of Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production produced by Thames Television. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place (theatre), The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed Theatre in the round, in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background; changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth''
(''The Shakespeare Collection'') , Video , , 1981 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1982 film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 1982 , , , The film is one shot (film), composed of only two shots: The first shot (filmmaking), shot (before the main title) is five minutes long, the second 57 minutes long. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "BBC Television Shakespeare#Macbeth, Macbeth"
(''

'') , TV , , 1983 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (1987 film), Macbeth'' , Film , , 1987 , , , A film adaptation of Verdi's opera ''Macbeth (opera), Macbeth'' (libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on Macbeth, Shakespeare's play) It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Men of Respect'' , Film , , 1990 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales#Macbeth, Macbeth"
('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1992 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth'' , TV , , 1997 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth on the Estate'' , TV , , 1997 , , , Modern-setting version in a world of drugs and drug kingpins. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth'' , TV , , 1998 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Makibefo'' , Film , , 1999 , , , Filming took place near the town of Faux Cap, Madagascar, with a single technical assistant. With the exception of an English-speaking Narration, narrator, all the roles are played by Indigenous peoples, indigenous Antandroy people (few of whom had ever seen a movie before) who performed a largely Improvisational theatre, improvised story based on ''Macbeth'' set in a remote fishing village. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth'' , TV , , 2001 , , , Royal Shakespeare Company , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Rave Macbeth'' , Film , , 2001 , , , A loose adaptation set in rave culture. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Scotland, PA'' , Film , , 2001 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Maqbool''
( hi, मक़बूल ur, مقبُول) , Film , , 2003 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Macbeth"
(''

'') , TV , , 2005 , , , Set in a Michelin-star, three Michelin star restaurant owned by celebrity chef King Duncan, Duncan Docherty, with Joe Macbeth (character), Macbeth as the Chef#Sous-chef, sous chef and Lady Macbeth, his wife Ella as the ''Maître d'hôtel, Maître d'''. Joe and his fellow chef Billy Banquo are annoyed that Duncan takes the credit for Joe's work, and that Duncan's son Malcolm (Macbeth), Malcolm has no real flair for the business. Then they encounter three supernatural Waste collector, binmen who predict that Macbeth will get ownership of the restaurant, as will Billy's children. Joe and Ella are inspired to kill Duncan, but the binmen subsequently warn that Macbeth should be wary of Peter Macduff (Macbeth), Macduff, the head waiter. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (2006 film), Macbeth'' , Film , , 2006 , , , Sets the story in a modern-day Melbourne gangster setting, and the actors deliver the dialogue in Australian accents, largely maintains the language of the original play. , - ! scope="row" style="white space:nowrap" , ''Macbeth'' , TV , , 2009 , , , An episode of South African miniseries ''Death of a Queen''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (2010 film), Macbeth'' , TV , , 2010 , , , Based on Goold's stage adaptation for the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2007. The film specifically evokes the atmosphere of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, with subtle parallels between Stalin and Macbeth in their equally brutal quests for power. The Three Witches likewise receive an update in keeping with the 20th century aesthetics, appearing as hospital nurses. Their presence is pervasive throughout the film, punctuating the horror of Macbeth's murderous reign. The film was filmed entirely on location at Welbeck Abbey. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Shakespeare Must Die''
( th, เชคสเปียร์ต้องตาย) , Film , , 2012 , , , Thai-language film that tells the story of a theatre group in a fictional country resembling Thailand, that is staging a production of ''Macbeth''. One of the film's main characters is a dictator named Dear Leader, who bears a resemblance to former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 Thai coup d'état, 2006 coup which sparked years of political turmoil between his supporters and critics. The Thai government banned the film fearing it would cause societal disunity. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Macbeth (2015 film), Macbeth'' , Film , , 2015 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Veeram (2016 film), Veeram''
( ml, വീരം, lit=Valour) , Film , , 2016 , , , The film, which also takes inspirations from the Vadakkan Pattukal (Northern Ballads) of the North Malabar region in Kerala, tells the story of Chandu Chekavar, an infamous 13th century warrior. ''Veeram'' is simultaneously made in Malayalam, Hindi, and in English with the same title. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Joji (film), Joji'' , Film , , 2021 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Mandaar'' , TV , , 2021 , , , A Bengali adaptation of the play, the series revolves around Mandaar, a young gangster, who kills his master, Dablu Bhai, to rise to the powerful seat of the fishing industry in the village of Geilpur. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021 film), The Tragedy of Macbeth'' , Film , , 2021 , , ,

''Othello''

} , Film , , 1956 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Jubal (film), Jubal'' , Film , , 1956 , , , A Western (genre), Western based on a 1939 novel by Paul Wellman, it was filmed in Technicolor and CinemaScope on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The film is notable as a western reworking of ''Othello''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''All Night Long (1962 film), All Night Long'' , Film , , 1962 , , , An adaptation set in the contemporary London jazz scene. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Othello (1965 British film), Othello'' , Film , , 1965 , , , A film of the Royal National Theatre's stage production. Olivier, Maggie Smith, Smith, Joyce Redman, Redman, and Frank Finlay, Finlay all received Academy Award nominations, and it was the film debuts for both Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Othello (1965 Australian film), Othello'' , TV , , 1965 , , , An Australian TV play, it was broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corpoation, ABC as part of ''Wednesday Theatre'' and filmed in the ABC's Melbourne studios. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Othello-67'' , Film , , 1967 , , , A 50-second animated parody made for Montreal's Expo 67."Othello-67" on Youtube
/ref> , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Catch My Soul'' , Film , , 1974 , , , Adapted from the Catch My Soul (UK stage version), rock musical based on the play. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "BBC Television Shakespeare#Othello, Othello"
(''

'') , TV , , 1981 , , , Released in the US as part of the ''Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare'' series. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Othello (1990 film), Othello'' , TV , , 1990 , , , Based on a stage production directed by

for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and later adapted for TV. It was shot in a studio with minimal props and scenery, and aired as en episode of ''Theatre Night''. The sets, costumes, and props are from the American Civil War, but the dialogue remains tied to Venice and Cyprus. In contrast with ''Antony and Cleopatra (1974 film), Antony and Cleopatra'' (1974) and ''Macbeth (1979 film), Macbeth'' (1979), Nunn preferred "contemplative" medium shots over close-up, extreme closeups. The film makes little attempt to hide that it is a filmed stage production, and Michael Brooke, writing about the film for BFI Screenonline, thinks this is because Nunn's state purpose was to preserve the stage production for posterity. The film presents almost the complete text of the play, leaving out just one scene with Cassio and the clown. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales#Othello, Othello"
('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1994 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Othello (1995 film), Othello'' , Film , , 1995 , , , The first cinematic reproduction of the play released by a major studio with an African American in the role of Othello, although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange and Yaphet Kotto predated it. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Kaliyattam''
( ml, കളിയാട്ടം, lit=The Play of God) , Film , , 1997 , , , An adaptation of the play against the backdrop of the Hindu Theyyam performance. Gopi received the National Film Award (India), National Film Award for National Film Award for Best Actor, Best Actor, and Jayaraaj the award for National Film Award for Best Director, Best Director for their work on the film. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''O (film), O'' , Film , , 2001 , , , A loose adaptation set in an American high school. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Othello (2001 film), Othello'' , TV , , 2001 , , , An adaptation by Andrew Davies (writer), Andrew Davies set in the police force in modern London. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Souli (film), Souli'' , Film , , 2004 , , , A post-colonial theory, post-colonial take on the play, set in a remote fishing village. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Omkara (2006 film), Omkara''
( hi, ओमकारा, ur, امکارا) , Film , , 2006 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Jarum Halus''
(Malay language, Malay: , Film , , 2008 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Iago (film), Iago'' , Film , , 2009 , , , Iago is an architecture school student about to graduate who falls in love with his fellow student Desdemona, the noble and beautiful daughter of the academic dean, professor Brabanzio. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Hrid Majharey''
( bn, হৃদ্‌ মাঝারে, lit=Live in my Heart) , Film , , 2014 , , , A tragic love story loosely inspired by ''Othello'', the film is a tribute to the Bard on his 450th Birth Anniversary. Elements of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' and ''Julius Caesar (play), Julius Caesar'' are also found in this love tragedy. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Chocolat (2016 film), Chocolat'' , Film , , 2016 , , , A loose biopic about the first black clown in France. Chocolat tries to branch into Shakespearean tragedy and plays Othello as the first black actor in this role in France. After the premiere, part of the audience boos the "clown". Chocolat leaves the theater in costume and is beaten by debt collectors.

''Romeo and Juliet''

} , Film , , 1900 , , , Features Cossira singing a tenor aria from Charles Gounod's ''Roméo et Juliette''. It is believed to be the earliest film adaptation of ''Romeo and Juliet''. The film was produced by "Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre", which premiered one of the first synchronized sound film systems at the Paris, France, Paris exhibition of 1900, with this film being one of the earliest to use the sound technique. The sound was recorded first using a Lioretograph onto a cellophane cylinder. This was then played back, and the actors filmed Lip sync, lip-syncing to the recording. To view the film, the sound was played back and the projectionist altered the speed of the hand-cranked projector to try to match the playback. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1908 film), Romeo and Juliet'' , Silent , , 1908 , , , Now considered lost film, lost, this was the first United States, American film version of ''Romeo and Juliet''. It was a film short, short made by Vitagraph Studios, and was filmed at Bethesda Terrace in Manhattan, New York. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1916 Metro Pictures film), Romeo and Juliet'' , Silent , , 1916 , , , This film was produced for the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and was released amongst many other commemorations of the "Bard". It was released in direct competition with another adaptation, produced by William Fox (producer), William Fox, starring Theda Bara, and released three days later. Bushman later claimed, in an interview, that he went to see the Theda Bara version and was shocked to see that Fox had added some intertitles from the Metro version. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1916 Fox film), Romeo and Juliet'' , Silent , , 1916 , , , The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation, and was shot at the Fox Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It was released in direct competition with another feature-length ''Romeo and Juliet (1916 Metro Pictures film), Romeo and Juliet'' film from Metro Pictures. In a recorded interview, Francis Bushman, who directed the competing film, claimed that William Fox had spies working for Metro, and stole some of the intertitles from the Metro version. Fox rushed his version into the theatres in order to capitalize on exhibiting his film first. Bushman recalled going to see Fox's ''Romeo and Juliet'' and was startled to see the intertitles from his film flash on the screen. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1936 film), Romeo and Juliet'' , Film , , 1936 , , , One of the three major film adaptations (along with Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann in 1996) of ''Romeo and Juliet''. ''The New York Times'' selected the film as one of the "Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", calling it "a lavish production" and "extremely well-produced and acted." , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1940 film), Romeo and Juliet''
( es, Julieta y Romeo) , Film , , 1940 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''The Lovers of Verona''
(french: Les amants de Vérone) , Film , , 1949 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1953 film), Romeo and Juliet''
( es, Romeo y Julita) , Film , , 1953 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1954 film), Romeo and Juliet'' , Film , , 1954 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1955 film), Romeo and Juliet''
(russian: Ромео и Джульетта, translit=Romeo i Dzhulyetta) , Film , , 1955 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo, Juliet and Darkness''
( cs, Romeo, Julie a tma) , Film , , 1960 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''West Side Story (1961 film), West Side Story'' , Film , , 1961 , , , An adaptation of the 1957 Broadway theatre, Broadway West Side Story, musical, which in turn was inspired by ''Romeo and Juliet''. The film received high praise from critics and the public, and became the List of American films of 1961#Top grossing films (U.S.), second highest grossing film of the year in the United States. The film was nominated for 11

and won 10, including

(as well as a special award for Robbins), becoming the record holder for the most wins for a movie musical. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romanoff and Juliet (1961 film), Romanoff and Juliet'' , Film , , 1961 , , , An adaptation by way of Romanoff and Juliet (play), Ustinov's play that sets the love story amids the ideologically warring communist USSR and the capitalist USA, competing for influence in a fictional European country.. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Fury of Johnny Kid''
( it, Dove si spara di più, es, La furia de Johnny Kidd) , Film , , 1967 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo and Juliet (1968 film), Romeo and Juliet'' , Film , , 1968 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Ma che musica maestro''
( it, Ma che musica maestro) , Film , , 1971 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "BBC Television Shakespeare#Romeo & Juliet, Romeo and Juliet"
(''

'') , TV , , 1978 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Another History''
( te, మరో చరిత్ర, translit=Maro Charitra) , Film , , 1978 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romie-0 and Julie-8'' , TV , , 1979 , , , An animated adaptation; set in the future, the two romantic leads in this version are android (robot), androids who fall in love. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Monica and Jimmy Five: In the World of Romeo & Juliet''
( pt, Mônica e Cebolinha: No Mundo de Romeu e Julieta) , TV , , 1979 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Ek Duuje Ke Liye, Made For Each Other''
( hi, एक दूजे के लिये, translit=Ek Duuje Ke Liye) , Film , , 1981 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''The Sea Prince and the Fire Child''
( ja, シリウスの伝説, translit=Shiriusu no Densetsu) , Film , , 1981 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (film), The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'' , Film , , 1982 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''China Girl (1987 film), China Girl'' , Film , , 1987 , , , A contemporary take on ''Romeo and Juliet'' set in 1980s Manhattan. The plot revolves around the intimate relationship developing between Tony, a teenage boy from Little Italy, and Tye, a teenage girl from Chinatown, while their older brothers are engaged in a heated gang war against each other. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''From Doom to Doom''
( hi, क़यामत से क़यामत तक, translit=Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak) , Film , , 1988 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo.Juliet'' , Film , , 1990 , , , Adapted using the feral cats of Venice,

, and Ghent as actors, with the voices dubbed by some of the greats of the English theatre. The score of the film features music from Serge Prokofiev, Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), Romeo and Juliet'' as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn conducting, and an original theme composed by Armando Acosta and Emanuel Vardi, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Barry Wordsworth. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales#Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet"
('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1992 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''November 30 (film), November 30''
( sv, 30:e november) , Film , , 1995 , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo + Juliet'' , Film , , 1996 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Tromeo and Juliet'' , Film , , 1996 , , , A more or less a faithful adaptation of the play except with the addition of extreme amounts of Troma Entertainment, Troma-esque sexuality and violence, as well as a revised ending. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Love Is All There Is'' , Film , , 1996 , , , A modern retelling of the story set in the Bronx during the 1990s. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'' , Film , , 1998 , , , An American Animation, animated direct-to-video Romantic film, romantic musical

. It is the sequel to Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney's 1994 animated feature film, ''

'', with its plot influenced by ''Romeo and Juliet''. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo Must Die'' , Film , , 2000 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Loving Hurts You''
( es, Amar te duele) , Film , , 2002 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Bollywood Queen'' , Film , , 2003 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo and Juliet Get Married''
( pt, O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta) , Film , , 2005 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo and Juliet (2006 film), Romeo and Juliet''
(french: Roméo et Juliette) , Film , , 2006 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss'' , Animation , , 2006 , , , An animated adaptation featuring seals and other marine life. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Rome & Jewel'' , Film , , 2006 , , , A hip-hop musical adaptation set in Los Angeles that deals with interracial love. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo × Juliet''
( ja, ロミオ×ジュリエット, Romio to Jurietto) , Anime , , 2007 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo and Juliet''
( ja, ロミオとジュリエット) , TV , , 2007 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Romeo and Juliet (TV series), Romeo and Juliet''
( es, Romeo y Julieta) , TV , , 2007 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''David & Fatima'' , Film , , 2008 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Another History (2010 film), Another History''
( te, మరో చరిత్ర, translit=Maro Charitra) , Film , , 2010 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Gnomeo & Juliet'' , Computer animation, Animated film , , 2011 , , , An animated adaptation set in the gardens of two feuding elderly neighbors in modern-day Stratford-upon-Avon. The story features garden gnomes representing the characters from the original story, with red gnomes representing the Capulet family, and blue gnomes representing the Montague family. The film differs from the original story in many ways, notably keeping both Gnomeo and Juliet alive at the end of the film. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Private Romeo'' , Film , , 2011 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Romeo & Juliet (2013 film), Romeo & Juliet'' , Film , , 2013 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Issaq''
( hi, इसक) , Film , , 2013 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela''
( hi, गोलियों की रासलीला रामलीला, lit=A Play of Bullets Ram-Leela) , Film , , 2013 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''Arshinagar''
( bn, আরশিনগর) , Film , , 2015 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: normal" , ''West Side Story (2021 film), West Side Story'' , Film , , 2021 , , , A remake of Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story (1961 film), 1961 adaptation of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story, Broadway musical of the same name, itself based on ''Romeo and Juliet''.

''Timon of Athens''

''Titus Andronicus''

''Troilus and Cressida''

Histories

''Henry IV, Part 1''

''Henry IV, Part 2''

''Henry V''

''Henry VI, Part 1''

''Henry VI, Part 2''

''Henry VI, Part 3''

''Henry VIII''

''King John''

} , Film , , 1936 , , , Produced by Modi's Stage Film Company, the film was a "stage recording" of the play, similar to Modi's first stage adaptation to screen of ''Khoon Ka Khoon''. It was written by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, Agha Hashr, based on an adaptation of ''King John'' and ''Richard III''. The film incorporates scenes and acts from King John, mainly Act 2 Scene 5, and made use of Richard III as general reference. Modi played the role of the "ethnically black" Kazal Beg (Hubert). Hashr had written the play in 1907 and according to Rajiva Verma there is very little similarity between ''King John'' and Hashr's adaptation, except for those mentioned earlier. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "BBC Television Shakespeare#The Life and Death of King John, The Life and Death of King John"
(''

'') , TV , , 1984 , , , Released in the US as part of the ''Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare'' series. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: npwrap" , "CBC Presents the Stratford Festival#King John, King John"
(CBC Presents the Stratford Festival) , Direct-to-video, Video , , 2015 , , , Filmed version of the Stratford Festival's 2014 stage production.

''Richard II''

''Richard III''

Romances

''Pericles''

''Cymbeline''

''The Winter's Tale''

''The Tempest''

} , Film , , 1989 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Prospero's Books'' , Film , , 1991 , , , A partial adaptation. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , "The Tempest"
('' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales'') , TV , , 1992 , , , Stop motion, Stop motion puppet animation , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tempest (1998 film), The Tempest'' , TV , , 1998 , , , , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tempest (2010 film), The Tempest'' , Film , , 2010 , , , The gender of main character Prospero was changed to Prospera so Mirren could take the role. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tempest'' , Direct-to-video, Video , , 2010 , , , A filmed Stratford Shakespeare Festival production. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''The Tempest'' , Direct-to-video, Video , , , 2014 , , , A filmed version of the live production at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, 2013. , - ! scope="row" style="white-space: nowrap" , ''Shakespeare's Shitstorm'' , Film , , 2020 , , , A more or less a faithful adaptation of the play except with the addition of extreme amounts of Troma-esque sexuality and violence.

Other

Shakespeare as a character

Acting Shakespeare

Television series

''NOTE: "ShakespeaRe-Told", "The Animated Shakespeare" and "BBC Television Shakespeare" series have been covered above, under the respective play performed in each episode.'' * ''Playing Shakespeare'' (TV, UK, 1979–1984) began as two consecutive episodes of the UK arts series ''The South Bank Show'', and developed into a nine-part series of its own. It features director John Barton (director), John Barton, then a leading light of the Royal Shakespeare Company, putting a host of actors through their paces. Many of those actors are now household names, including Judi Dench, Michael Pennington, Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley, David Suchet and Ian McKellen. The episodes were: **''The South Bank Show'': "Speaking Shakespearean Verse" **''The South Bank Show'': "Preparing to Perform Shakespeare" **1. "The Two Traditions" **2. "Using the Verse" **3. "Language and Character" **4. "Set Speeches and Soliloquies" **5. "Irony and Ambiguity" **6. "Passion and Coolness" **7. "Rehearsing the Text" **8. "Exploring a Character" **9. "Poetry and Hidden Poetry" Three further episodes were filmed but never edited or screened. They were to be called "Using the Prose", "Using the Sonnets" and "Contemporary Shakespeare". Their text can be read in the book "Playing Shakespeare" by John Barton (director), John Barton. * ''The Shakespeare Sessions'' (USA 2003): An American spin-off from Playing Shakespeare (above) in which John Barton (director), John Barton directs notable American actors in Shakespeare scenes. * ''Conjuring Shakespeare'' (TV, UK, 199?): A series of half-hour documentaries hosted by Fiona Shaw, each episode dealing with scenes from a particular play. * ''In Search of Shakespeare'' (TV, UK, 2003): A BBC documentary series of four 1-hour episodes, chronicling the life of William Shakespeare, written and presented by Michael Wood (historian), Michael Wood. * ''Slings & Arrows'' (TV, Canada, 2003–2006): A Canadian comedy drama set in the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival, a fictional Shakespearean festival in a small town in Canada comparable to the real-life Stratford Shakespeare Festival. With its entire run written by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin (comedian), Bob Martin and Mark McKinney, directed by Peter Wellington (director), Peter Wellington, and starring Paul Gross, Martha Burns and Stephen Ouimette, it aired in three seasons of six 1-hour episodes each. * ''Som & Fúria'' (TV, Brazil, 2009): A Brazilian adaptation of ''Slings and Arrows''.

Academic

* The "Themes of Shakespeare" series contains straight-to-video short documentaries, each considering the theme of a particular play. The contributors are Professor Stanley Wells, and Dr. Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. * Two lecture series given by professor Peter Saccio were filmed and are commercially available on DVD.

Miscellaneous

*''Theatre of Blood'' (UK, 1973). Vincent Price plays a Shakespearean actor who takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition. He kills his critics using methods inspired by several of Shakespeare's plays: ''Julius Caesar'', ''Troilus and Cressida'', ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Richard III'', ''Othello'', ''Cymbeline'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''Henry VI Part One'', ''Titus Andronicus'', and ''King Lear''. :Douglas Hickox director :Vincent Price as Edward Lionheart :Diana Rigg as Edwina Lionheart * ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)'' by the Reduced Shakespeare Company is a successful West End theatre, West End stage comedy, containing some element of all 37 canonical plays. A film of one of the live performances is commercially available. * The Royal Shakespeare Company have released a number of videos in the "Great Performances" series, which contain excerpts from stage performances. *''The Lion in Winter'' (US, Play, 1966). Set during Christmas 1183 at Henry II of England's castle in Chinon, Anjou, Angevin Empire, the play opens with the arrival of Henry's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he has had imprisoned since 1173. The story concerns the gamesmanship between Henry, Eleanor, their three surviving sons Richard, Geoffrey, and John, and their Christmas Court guest, the King of France, Philip II Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste), who was the son of Eleanor's ex-husband, Louis VII of France (by his third wife, Adelaide). Also involved is Philip's half-sister Alais, who has been at court since she was betrothed to Richard at age eight, but has since become Henry's mistress. The Lion in Winter (film), A film version was made in 1968. Productions have been put on by Shakespearean Theater companies (Unseam'd Shakespeare Company production in 2002 and the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse presented it in complementary repertory with William Shakespeare's ''King John'' in 2012). :Anthony Harvey director :Peter O'Toole as King Henry II :Katharine Hepburn as Queen Eleanor :Anthony Hopkins (in his motion picture debut) as Richard the Lionheart :Nigel Terry as John :Timothy Dalton (in his motion picture debut) as King Philip II

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Comedies

''All's Well That Ends Well''

''As You Like It''

''The Comedy of Errors''

''Love's Labour's Lost''

''Measure for Measure''

''The Merchant of Venice''

''The Merry Wives of Windsor''

''A Midsummer Night's Dream''

''Much Ado About Nothing''

''The Taming of the Shrew''

''Twelfth Night''

''The Two Gentlemen of Verona''

Tragedies

''Antony and Cleopatra''

''Coriolanus''

''Hamlet''

''Julius Caesar''

''King Lear''

''Macbeth''

''Othello''

''Romeo and Juliet''

''Timon of Athens''

''Titus Andronicus''

''Troilus and Cressida''

Histories

''Henry IV, Part 1''

''Henry IV, Part 2''

''Henry V''

''Henry VI, Part 1''

''Henry VI, Part 2''

''Henry VI, Part 3''

''Henry VIII''

''King John''

''Richard II''

''Richard III''

Romances

''Pericles''

''Cymbeline''

''The Winter's Tale''

''The Tempest''

Other

Shakespeare as a character

Acting Shakespeare

Television series

Academic

Miscellaneous

See also

Notes and references

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Further reading

External links