List of William Shakespeare film adaptations

Contents 1 Comedies 1.1 All's Well That Ends Well 1.2 As You Like It 1.3 The Comedy of Errors 1.4 Cymbeline 1.5 Love's Labour's Lost 1.6 Measure For Measure 1.7 The Merchant of Venice 1.8 The Merry Wives of Windsor 1.9 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.9.1 Performances 1.9.2 Adaptations 1.10 Much Ado About Nothing 1.10.1 Performances 1.10.2 Adaptations 1.11 Pericles 1.12 The Taming of the Shrew 1.12.1 Performances 1.12.2 Adaptations 1.13 The Tempest 1.13.1 Performances 1.13.2 Adaptations 1.14 Twelfth Night 1.14.1 Performances 1.14.2 Adaptations 1.15 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.16 The Winter's Tale 1.16.1 Performances 1.16.2 Adaptations 2 Tragedies 2.1 Antony and Cleopatra 2.1.1 Performances 2.1.2 Adaptations 2.2 Coriolanus 2.3 Hamlet 2.4 Julius Caesar 2.4.1 Performances 2.4.2 Adaptations 2.5 King Lear 2.5.1 Performances 2.5.2 Adaptations 2.6 Macbeth 2.7 Othello 2.7.1 Performances 2.7.2 Adaptations 2.8 Romeo and Juliet 2.9 Timon of Athens 2.10 Titus Andronicus 2.10.1 Performances 2.11 Troilus and Cressida 2.11.1 Performances 3 Histories 3.1 Henry IV Part 1 3.1.1 Performances 3.1.2 Adaptations 3.2 Henry IV Part 2 3.2.1 Performances 3.2.2 Adaptations 3.3 Henry V 3.3.1 Performances 3.3.2 Adaptations 3.4 Henry VI Part 1 3.4.1 Performances 3.5 Henry VI Part 2 3.6 Henry VI Part 3 3.7 Henry VIII 3.8 King John 3.9 Richard II 3.9.1 Performances 3.9.2 Adaptations 3.10 Richard III 3.10.1 Performances 3.10.2 Adaptations 4 Other 4.1 Shakespeare as a character 4.2 Acting Shakespeare 4.3 Television series 4.4 Academic 4.5 Miscellaneous 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

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.^[1] Some are faithful to the original story and text, while others are adaptations that use only the plots rather than his dialogue.

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well

• All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1968)

Directors: John Barton, Claude Whatham

Lynn Farleigh (Helena), Ian Richardson (Count Bertram), Catherine Lacey (The Countess of Rousillon), Sebastian Shaw (The King of France), Clive Swift (Parolles), Caroline Hunt (Diana), Elizabeth Spriggs (A Widow of Florence), Brewster Mason (Lafew), Ian Hogg (Lavatch)

• All's Well That Ends Well (TV, USA, 1978)

Director: Wilford Leach

Pamela Reed (Helena), Marc Linn (Count Bertram), Elizabeth Wilson (The Countess of Rousillon), Larry Pines (Parolles), Frances Conroy (Diana), Barbara Williams (A Widow of Florence), John Ferraro (Lavatch)

• BBC Television Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1981)

Director: Elijah Moshinsky

Angela Down (Helena), Ian Charleson (Count Bertram), Celia Johnson (The Countess of Rousillon), Donald Sinden (The King of France), Peter Jeffrey (Parolles), Pippa Guard (Diana), Rosemary Leach (A Widow of Florence), Michael Hordern (Lafew), Paul Brooke (Lavatch)

• National Theatre Live All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 2009)

Director: Marianne Elliott

Michelle Terry (Helena), George Rainsford (Count Bertram), Claire Higgings (The Countess of Rousillon), Oliver Ford Davies (The King of France), Conleth Hill (Parolles)

As You Like It

• As You Like It (USA, 1912)

Directors: J. Stuart Blackton, Charles Kent, James Young

Rose Coghlan (Rosalind), Maurice Costello (Orlando), Rosemary Theby (Celia), Charles Kent (Jaques), Robert McWade Sr (Touchstone), Harry T. Morey (Duke Frederick), Tefft Johnson (Duke Senior), Robert Gaillard (Oliver), Charles Eldridge (Corin), George Ober (Adam), Rose Tapley (Phebe), James W. Morrison (Silvius), Kate Price (Audrey)

• Love in a Wood (UK, 1915)

Director: Maurice Elvey

Elisabeth Risdon (Rosalind), Gerald Ames (Orlando), Vera Cunningham (Celia), Frank Stanmore (Touch-stone), Kenelm Foss (Oliver)

• As You Like It (USA, 1936)

Director: Paul Czinner

Elisabeth Bergner (Rosalind), Laurence Olivier (Orlando), Sophie Stewart (Celia), Leon Quartermaine (Jaques), Mackenzie Ward (Touchstone), Felix Aylmer (Duke Frederick), Henry Ainley (Duke Senior), John Laurie (Oliver), Aubrey Mather (Corin), J. Fisher White (Adam), Joan White (Phebe), Richard Ainley (Silvius), Dorice Fordred (Audrey)

• As You Like It (TV, UK, 1963)

Directors: Michael Elliott, Ronald Eyre

Vanessa Redgrave (Rosalind), Patrick Allen (Orlando), Rosalind Knight (Celia), Max Adrian (Jaques), Patrick Wymark (Touchstone), Tony Church (Duke Frederick), Paul Hardwick (Duke Senior), David Buck (Oliver), Russell Hunter (Corin), Clifford Rose (Adam), Jeanne Hepple (Phebe), Peter Gill (Silvius), Patsy Byrne (Audrey)

• BBC Television Shakespeare As You Like It (TV, UK, 1978)

Director: Basil Coleman

Helen Mirren (Rosalind), Brian Stirner (Orlando), Angharad Rees (Celia), Richard Pasco (Jaques), James Bolam (Touchstone), Richard Easton (Duke Frederick), Tony Church (Duke Senior), Clive Francis (Oliver), David Lloyd Meredith (Corin), Arthur Hewlett (Adam), Victoria Plucknett (Phebe), Maynard Williams (Silvius), Marilyn Le Conte (Audrey)

• As You Like It (TV, Canada, 1983)

Director: Herb Roland

Roberta Maxwell (Rosalind), Andrew Gillies (Orlando), Rosemary Dunsmore (Celia), Christopher Gibson (Jaques), Lewis Gordon (Touchstone), Graeme Campbell (Duke Frederick), William Needles (Duke Senior), Stephen Russell (Oliver), Mervyn Blake (Adam), Mary Haney (Phebe), John Jarvis (Silvius), Elizabeth Leigh-Milne (Audrey)

• As You Like It (UK, 1992)

Director: Christine Edzard

Emma Croft (Rosalind), Andrew Tiernan (Orlando/Oliver), Celia Bannerman (Celia), James Fox (Jaques), Griff Rhys Jones (Touchstone), Don Henderson (Duke Frederick/Duke Senior), Roger Hammond (Corin), Cyril Cusack (Adam), Valerie Gogan (Phebe), Ewen Bremmer (Silvius), Miriam Margolyes (Audrey)

• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales As You Like It (TV, Russia and UK, 1994)

Director: Alexei Karaev

Sylvestra Le Touzel (Rosalind), John McAndrew (Orlando), Maria Miles (Celia/Audrey), Nathaniel Parker (Jaques/Oliver), Peter Gunn (Touchstone), Christopher Benjamin (Duke Frederick/Corin), Garard Green (Duke Senior/Adam), Eiry Thomas (Phebe), David Holt (Silvius)

• As You Like It (UK, 2006)

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Bryce Dallas Howard (Rosalind), David Oyelowo (Orlando), Romola Garai (Celia), Kevin Kline (Jaques), Alfred Molina (Touchstone), Brian Blessed (Duke Frederick/Duke Senior), Adrian Lester (Oliver), Jimmy Yuill (Corin), Richard Briers (Adam), Jade Jefferies (Phebe), Alex Wyndham (Silvius), Janet McTeer (Audrey)

• As You Like It (TV, CA, 2010)

Directors: Robert Budreau, Des McAnuff

Andrea Runge (Rosalind), Paul Nolan (Orlando), Brent Carver (Jaques), Ben Carlson (Touchstone), Tom Rooney (Duke Frederick/Duke Senior)

• As You Like It (Video, UK, 2010)

Naomi Frederick (Rosalind), Jack Laskey (Orlando), Laura Rogers (Celia), Tim McMullan (Jaques), Dominic Rowan (Touchstone), Brendan Hughes (Duke Frederick), Philip Bird (Duke Senior), Jamie Parker (Oliver), Trevor Martin (Adam), Sophie Duval (Audrey)

The Comedy of Errors

• The Boys from Syracuse (USA, 1940) - a musical adaptation

A. Edward Sutherland director

Allan Jones as 7Antipholus of Ephesus/Antipholus of Syracuse

Joe Penner as Dromio of Ephesus/Dromio of Syracuse

• Festival The Comedy of Errors (TV, UK, 1967)

Peter Duguid, Clifford Williams directors

Ian Richardson and Alec McCowen as Antipholus of Ephesus and Syracuse

Clifford Rose and Barry MacGregor as Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse

• The Comedy of Errors (TV, UK, 1978)

Philip Casson - Director

Mike Gwilym and Roger Rees as Antipholus of Ephesus and Syracuse

Nickolas Grace and Michael Williams as Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse

• Angoor (Hindi, India, 1982) - a Bollywood adaptation

Gulzar director

Sanjeev Kumar as the two Ashoks

Deven Verman as the two Bahadurs

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors (TV, UK, 1983)

James Cellan Jones director

Michael Kitchen as Antipholus of Ephesus/Antipholus of Syracuse

Roger Daltrey as Dromio of Ephesus/Dromio of Syracuse

• The Comedy of Errors (TV, USA, 1987)

Robert Woodruff director

Howard Jay Patterson and Paul David Magid as Antipholus of Ephesus and Syracuse

Randy Nelson and Samuel Ross Williams as Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse

• The Comedy of Errors (TV, CA, 1989)

Director: Richard Monette

Geordie Johnson (Antipholus of Ephesus/Antipholus of Syracuse), Keith Dinicol as (Dromio of Ephesus/Dromio of Syracuse), Nicholos Pennell (Egeon), James Blendick (The Duke of Ephesus), Goldie Semple (Adriana), Kate Hennig (Luciana), Douglas Chamberlain (Angelo), Wenna Shaw (Emilia)

Cymbeline

• Cymbeline (USA, 1913)

Lucius Henderson director

William Russell as Cymbeline

Florence La Badie as Imogen

• BBC Television Shakespeare Cymbeline (TV, UK, 1982)

Elijah Moshinsky director

Richard Johnson as Cymbeline

Helen Mirren as Imogen

Love's Labour's Lost

• Play of the Month Love's Labour's Lost (TV, UK, 1975)

Basil Coleman director

Martin Shaw as Ferdinand

Lorna Heilbron as the Princess of France

• BBC Television Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost (TV, UK, 1985)

Elijah Moshinsky director

Jonathan Kent as Ferdinand

Maureen Lipman as the Princess of France

• Love's Labour's Lost (UK, 2000) - a musical adaptation

Kenneth Branagh director

Alessandro Nivola as Ferdinand

Alicia Silverstone as the Princess of France

Measure For Measure

• BBC Television Shakespeare Measure For Measure (TV, UK, 1979)

Desmond Davis director

Kenneth Colley as Duke Vincentio

Kate Nelligan as Isabella

• Performance Measure for Measure (TV, UK, 1995)

David Thacker director

Tom Wilkinson as Duke Vincentio

Juliet Aubrey as Isabella

The Merchant of Venice

• The Merchant of Venice (UK, 1922)

Challis Sanderson director

Ivan Berlyn as Shylock

Sybil Thorndike as Portia

• The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1947)

George More O'Ferrall director

Abraham Sofaer as Shylock

Margaretta Scott as Portia

• Sunday Night Theatre The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1955)

Hal Burton director

Michael Hordern as Shylock

Rachel Gurney as Portia

• Play of the Month The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1972)

Cedric Messina director

Frank Finlay as Shylock

Maggie Smith as Portia

• The Merchant of Venice (USA, 1973)

John Sichel director

Laurence Olivier as Shylock

Joan Plowright as Portia

• The Merchant of Venice (TV, CA, 1976)

John Sichel director

Antony Holland as Shylock

Trish Grange as Portia

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1980)

Jack Gold director

Warren Mitchell as Shylock

Gemma Jones as Portia

• The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 1996)

Alan Horrox director

Bob Peck as Shylock

Haydn Gwynne as Portia

• Masterpiece Theatre The Merchant of Venice (TV, UK, 2001)

Chris Hunt, Trevor Nunn directors

Henry Goodman as Shylock

Derbhle Crotty as Portia

• The Maori Merchant of Venice (NZ, 2002)

Don Selwyn director

Waihoroi Shortland as Hairoka (Shylock)

Ngarimu Daniels as Portia (Pohia)

• The Merchant of Venice (USA, 2004)

Michael Radford director

Al Pacino as Shylock

Lynn Collins as Portia

The Merry Wives of Windsor

• Sunday Night Theatre The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV, UK, 1952)

Julian Amyes director

Robert Atkins as Falstaff

Betty Huntley-Wright as Mistress Ford

• Chimes at Midnight (USA, 1967) - an amalgamation of scenes from Richard II, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor

Orson Welles director

Orson Welles as Falstaff

Keith Baxter as Hal

• The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV, USA, 1970)

Jack Manning director

Leon Charles as Falstaff

Valerine Seelie-Snyder as Mistress Ford

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV, UK, 1982)

Christian Ebil director

Richard Griffiths as Falstaff

Judy Davis as Mistress Ford

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Performances

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1935)

Max Reinhardt director

Olivia de Havilland as Hermia

James Cagney as Bottom

Mickey Rooney as Puck

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Shakespeare Company film (UK, 1968)

Peter Hall director

Judi Dench as Titania

Paul Rogers as Bottom

Diana Rigg as Helena

David Warner as Lysander

Ian Holm as Puck

• BBC Television Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV, UK, 1981) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The Animated Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)

Robert Saakiants director

Suzanne Bertish as the voice of Titania

Bernard Hill as the voice of Bottom

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Royal Shakespeare Company film (UK, 1995)

Adrian Noble director

Lindsay Duncan as Titania

Desmond Barrit as Bottom

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999)

Michael Hoffman director

Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania

Kevin Kline as Bottom

Rupert Everett as Oberon

Calista Flockhart as Helena

Stanley Tucci as Puck

• Midsummer (USA, 1999) sets the Dream story against a surreal backdrop of techno clubs and ancient symbols.

James Kerwin screenplay and director

Travis Schuldt as Demetrius

• The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 2001) is a film of the play, performed by a cast of children

Christine Edzard director

Adaptations

• sueve El Sueño de una noche de San Juan (aka "Midsummer Dream", Spain and Portugal, 2005) is an animated adaptation of the Cream story.

Ángel de la Cruz and Manolo Gómez directors

• Get Over It (2001), a modern musical adaptation set at a highschool which includes another version of the play performed as a show-within-a-show, much like the Pyramus and Thisbe subplay in the original Shakespeare.

• A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002) is a modern adaptation set at a warehouse party

• ShakespeaRe-Told A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV, UK, 2005) is a modern adaptation by Peter Bowker

Sharon Small as Titania

Lennie James as Oberon

Johnny Vegas as Bottom

• The 2008 movie, Were the World Mine, is inspired by the play, and prominently features a modern 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."

Much Ado About Nothing

Performances

• Much Ado About Nothing (TV, US, 1973) (videotaped)

A CBS Television Adaptation of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Production

Sam Waterston as Benedick

Kathleen Widdoes as Beatrice

Barnard Hughes as Dogberry

Douglass Watson as Don Pedro

Nick Havinga and A.J. Antoon, directors

• BBC Television Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing (TV, UK, 1984) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993)

Kenneth Branagh director and as Benedick

Emma Thompson as Beatrice

Denzel Washington as Don Pedro

Robert Sean Leonard as Claudio

Kate Beckinsale as Hero

Michael Keaton as Dogberry

Keanu Reeves as Don John

Adaptations

• ShakespeaRe-Told Much Ado About Nothing (UK, TV, 2005) is a modern adaptation by David Nicholls.

Sarah Parish as Beatrice

Damian Lewis as Benedick

Billie Piper as Hero

Martin Jarvis as Leonard (the Leonato character)

• Much Ado About Nothing, an adaptation written and directed by Joss Whedon

Amy Acker as Beatrice

Alexis Denisof as Benedick

Fran Kranz as Claudio

Jillian Morgese as Hero

Nathan Fillion as Dogberry

Clark Gregg as Leonato

Reed Diamond as Don Pedro

Sean Maher as Don John

Pericles

• BBC Television Shakespeare Pericles, Prince of Tyre (TV, UK, 1984)(videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• Mike Gwylim as Pericles
• Edward Petherbridge as Gower

The Taming of the Shrew

Performances

• The Taming of the Shrew (USA, 1929)

Mary Pickford as Katherine

Douglas Fairbanks as Petruchio

• The Taming of the Shrew (USA, 1967)

Franco Zeffirelli director

Elizabeth Taylor as Katherine

Richard Burton as Petruchio

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew (TV, UK, 1980) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Jonathan Miller, director

John Cleese as Petruchio

Sarah Badel as Katherine

• Quantum Leap The Taming of the Shrew (aka "The Shakespeare Collection") (TV/video, USA, 19??)

John Allinson director

Karen Austin as Katherine

Franklin Seales as Petruchio

• The Animated Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew (TV, Russia and UK, 1994)

Aida Ziablikova director

Amanda Root as the voice of Katherine

Nigel Le Vaillant as the voice of Petruchio

Adaptations

• Kiss Me, Kate (USA, 1948)

Howard Keel as 'Petruchio'

Kathryn Grayson as 'Katerina'

Ann Miller as 'Bianca'

• Moonlighting (TV, USA; 25 Nov 1986 episode "Atomic Shakespeare") 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.

Will Mackenzie director

Cybill Shepherd as Katerina

Bruce Willis as Petruchio

• 10 Things I Hate about You (USA, 1999)

Julia Stiles as Kat

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron

Larisa Oleynik as Bianca

• Deliver Us from Eva (USA, 2003)
• ShakespeaRe-Told The Taming of The Shrew (UK, TV, 2005) is a modern adaptation by Sally Wainwright.

Shirley Henderson as Katherine

Rufus Sewell as Petruchio

• Shrew in the Park (Canada, TV, 2003)

Andrew Honor director

The Tempest

Performances

• The Tempest, (USA, 1911)

Edwin Thanhouser director

• Hallmark Hall of Fame The Tempest (TV, USA, 1960) (videotaped)

George Schaefer director

Maurice Evans as Prospero

Richard Burton as Caliban

Lee Remick as Miranda

Roddy McDowall as Ariel

• The Tempest (UK, 1979)

Derek Jarman director

Heathcote Williams as Prospero

Toyah Willcox as Miranda

"Stormy Weather" sung by Elisabeth Welch

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Tempest (TV, UK, 1980)(videotaped)

Michael Hordern as Prospero

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The Tempest (aka "The Shakespeare Collection") (TV/video, USA, 1983)

William Woodman director

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Prospero

• Prospero's Books (Netherlands, France, UK, Italy 1991) partial adaptation.

Peter Greenaway director

John Gielgud as Prospero

Isabelle Pasco as Miranda

• The Animated Shakespeare The Tempest (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)

Stanislav Sokolov director

Timothy West as the voice of Prospero

• The Tempest, (USA, 2010)

Julie Taymor director

Helen Mirren as Prospera

The gender of main character Prospero was changed to Prospera so Mirren could take the role.^[2]

David Strathairn as King of Naples

Djimon Hounsou as Caliban

Russell Brand as Trinculo

Alfred Molina as Stephano

Ben Whishaw as Ariel

Felicity Jones as Miranda

Reeve Carney as Ferdinand

Chris Cooper as Antonio

Alan Cumming as Sebastian

Adaptations

• Yellow Sky (USA, 1948) ^[3]

William A. Wellman director

Gregory Peck as Stretch

• Forbidden Planet (USA, 1956)

Fred M. Wilcox director

Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius

Anne Francis as Altaira 'Alta' Morbius

Leslie Nielsen as Commander J. J. Adams

• Tempest (USA, 1982)

Paul Mazursky director

John Cassavetes as Phillip Dimitrious

Molly Ringwald as Miranda

Susan Sarandon as Aretha

Raul Julia as Kalibanos

• Prospero's Books (UK0)

Peter Greenaway director

John Gielgud as Prospero

• The Tempest (USA, 1998)

Jack Bender director

Peter Fonda as Gideon Prosper

• Resan till Melonia (The journey to Melonia, Sweden-Norway, 1989. See http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resan_till_Melonia)

Per Åhlin director, manuscript

Karl Rasmusson manuscript

Twelfth Night

Performances

• Twelfth Night (film, USA, 1910)

Eugene Mullin and Charles Kent directors

Julia Swayne Gordon as Olivia

Charles Kent as Malvolio

Florence Turner as Viola

Edith Storey as Sebastain

Tefft Johnson as Orsino

Marin Sais as Maria

William Humphrey as Sir Toby Belch

James Young as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

• Twelfth Night (aka Dvenadtsataya noch) (USSR, 1955) Yan Frid director
• Twelfth Night (TV, UK, 1969)(videotaped)

John Sichel and John Dexter directors

Joan Plowright as Viola and Sebastian

Alec Guinness as Malvolio

Ralph Richardson as Sir Toby Belch

Tommy Steele as an unusually prominent Feste

• BBC Television Shakespeare Twelfth Night (TV, UK, 1980) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• Twelfth Night (TV, UK, 1988) (videotaped)

Kenneth Branagh director

Richard Briers as Malvolio

Caroline Langrishe as Olivia

music by Pat Doyle

(TRIVIA: the arrangement of Come Away Death in this production is an adaptation of Paul McCartney's Once Upon A Long Ago.)

• The Animated Shakespeare Twelfth Night (TV, Russia and UK, 1992)

Maria Muat director

Fiona Shaw

Hugh Grant

William Rushton as the voice of Sir Toby Belch

• Twelfth Night (UK, 1996)

Trevor Nunn director

Imogen Stubbs as Viola

Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia

Toby Stephens as Orsino

Nigel Hawthorne as Malvolio

Mel Smith as Sir Toby Belch

Richard E. Grant as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Ben Kingsley as Feste

• Twelfth Night, or What You Will (TV, UK, 2003) (videotaped)

Tim Supple director

Parminder Nagra as Viola

Ronny Jhutti as Sebastian

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Orsino

Claire Price as Olivia

Maureen Beattie as Maria

David Troughton as Sir Toby Belch

Richard Bremner as Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Zubin Varla as Feste

Michael Maloney as Malvolio

Adaptations

• She's the Man (US, 2006) adapts the story to a high-school setting

Andy Fickman director

Amanda Bynes as Viola

Channing Tatum as Duke Orsino

Laura Ramsey as Olivia

James Kirk as Sebastian

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona (TV, UK, 1984)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

The Winter's Tale

Performances

• BBC Television Shakespeare The Winter's Tale (TV, UK, 1980)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The Animated Shakespeare The Winter's Tale (TV, Russia and UK, 1994)

Stanislav Sokolov director

Anton Lesser

Jenny Agutter

• The Winter's Tale, a straight-to-video filming of the 1999 RSC Barbican production.

Greg Doran director

Antony Sher as Leontes

Adaptations

• RSC Production Casebook – The Winter's Tale a straight-to-video documentary of the RSC production listed separately above, including interviews with Antony Sher, Greg Doran, Cicely Berry (the RSC's voice coach) and other members of the cast and crew, together with lengthy excerpts from the show itself.

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra

Performances

• Antony and Cleopatra, 1908
• Antony and Cleopatra, (1972)

Charlton Heston, director and star, as Antony

Hildegarde Neil as Cleopatra

Eric Porter as Enobarbus

• Antony and Cleopatra, (TV, UK, 1974) (videotaped)

Jon Scoffield director (television version) Trevor Nunn director (stage version)

Janet Suzman as Cleopatra

Richard Johnson as Antony

Patrick Stewart as Enobarbus

(TRIVIA: This was his first television role.)

• BBC Television Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (TV, UK, 1981)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Adaptations

• Carry On Cleo (UK, 1965) is a Carry On film adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

Gerald Thomas director

Kenneth Williams as Caesar

Sid James as Mark Antony

Amanda Barrie as Cleopatra

• Kannaki (India, Malayalam, 2002) is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

Jayaraaj director

Lal as Manikyan

Siddique as Choman

Nandita Das as Kannaki

Coriolanus

• BBC Television Shakespeare Coriolanus (TV, UK, 1984) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• Coriolanus (film) (UK, 2012)

Ralph Fiennes as Coriolanus

Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius

Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia

Brian Cox as Menenius

Hamlet

This is a summary of the main article Hamlet on screen.

See also the main article for the play Hamlet.

The most significant screen performances are:

• Hamlet (Germany, 1920) Svend Gade & Heinz Schall directors
• Hamlet (UK, 1948) Laurence Olivier director
• Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark (West Germany, 1961) Franz Peter Wirth director
• Hamlet (aka Gamlet) (Russia, 1964) Grigori Kozintsev director
• Hamlet (aka Richard Burton's Hamlet) (1964), Bill Colleran and John Gielgud directors
• Hamlet at Elsinore (TV, UK, 1964) Philip Saville director
• Hamlet (UK, 1969) Tony Richardson director
• BBC Television Shakespeare Hamlet (TV, UK, 1980) Rodney Bennett director (a videotaped production)
• Hamlet (USA, 1990) Franco Zeffirelli director
• The Animated Shakespeare Hamlet (TV, Russia and UK, 1992) Natalia Orlova director
• Hamlet (UK, 1996) Kenneth Branagh director
• Hamlet (USA, 2000) Michael Almereyda director (Modern Retelling)
• The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (2007) (AUS, 2007) Oscar Redding director

Adaptations, and films using elements of "Hamlet" include:

• The Bad Sleep Well (aka Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (Japan, 1960) Akira Kurosawa director
• Strange Brew (Canada, 1983) Dave Thomas & Rick Moranis directors.
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (USA, 1990) Tom Stoppard director
• Renaissance Man (USA, 1994) Penny Marshall director
• The Lion King (USA, 1994) Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff directors.
• In The Bleak Midwinter (aka "A Midwinter's Tale") (UK, 1996) Kenneth Branagh director
• Let the Devil Wear Black (USA, 1999) Stacy Title director
• The Banquet, (China, 2006) Feng Xiaogang, director
• Karmayogi (2011 film), (India, 2011) V K Prakash, director

Julius Caesar

Performances

• Julius Caesar (USA, 1950)

David Bradley director and as Brutus

Harold Tasker as Caesar

Charlton Heston as Mark Antony

• Julius Caesar (USA, 1953)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz director

James Mason as Brutus

John Gielgud as Cassius

Marlon Brando as Mark Antony

• Julius Caesar (USA, 1970)

Charlton Heston as Mark Antony

Jason Robards as Brutus

John Gielgud as Caesar

• BBC Television Shakespeare Julius Caesar (TV, UK, 1979) (a production shot on videotape rather than film)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The Animated Shakespeare Julius Caesar (TV, Russia and UK, 1994)

Yuri Kulakov director

Joss Ackland as the voice of Julius Caesar

Adaptations

• Carry On Cleo (UK, 1965) is a Carry On film adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

Gerald Thomas director

Kenneth Williams as Caesar

Sid James as Mark Antony

Amanda Barrie as Cleopatra

King Lear

See also its section on screen adaptations.

Performances

• King Lear (TV, USA, 1953) (originally presented live, now survives on kinescope)

Peter Brook/Andrew McCullough director

Orson Welles as Lear

• King Lear (UK, 1971)

Peter Brook director

Paul Scofield as Lear

• King Lear (aka Korol Lir) (Russia, 1971)

Grigori Kozintsev director

Jüri Järvet as Lear

• New York Shakespeare Festival King Lear (USA, 1974) (videotaped)

James Earl Jones as Lear

Raul Julia as Edmund

Rene Auberjonois as Edgar

Rosalind Cash as Goneril

Douglass Watson as Kent

• King Lear (TV, UK, 1976)(videotaped)

Tony Davenall director

Patrick Magee as Lear

Beth Harris as Goneril

Ann Lynn as Regan

Wendy Alnutt as Cordelia

Patrick Mower as Edmund

Robert Coleby as Edgar

• BBC Television Shakespeare King Lear (TV, UK, 1982)(videotaped)

Jonathan Miller director

Michael Hordern as Lear

Frank Middlemass as the Fool

Brenda Blethyn as Cordelia

Anton Lesser as Edgar

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• King Lear (TV, UK, 1983)

Michael Elliot director

Laurence Olivier as Lear

Leo McKern as Gloucester

Robert Lindsay as Edmund

John Hurt as The Fool

David Threlfall as Edgar

• King Lear (TV, UK, 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.

Richard Eyre director

Ian Holm as Lear

Barbara Flynn as Goneril

Amanda Redman as Regan

Victoria Hamilton as Cordelia

Timothy West as Gloucester

Finbar Lynch as Edmund

Paul Rhys as Edgar

• King Lear (UK, 1999)

Brian Blessed director and as Lear

Hildegard Neil as Fool

Adaptations

• King Lear (Bahamas/USA, 1987) is post-Chernobyl science fiction.

Jean-Luc Godard director and Professor Pluggy (equivalent to the Fool)

Burgess Meredith as Don Learo

Molly Ringwald as Cordelia

Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth

Woody Allen as Mr. Alien

• Ran (Japan, 1985) is an adaptation of the Lear story to a Japanese setting.

Akira Kurosawa director

Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora (equivalent to King Lear)

Peter (equivalent to the Fool)

• A Thousand Acres (USA, 1997) is a modern retelling of the Lear story, from the perspective of the Goneril character (Ginny).

Jocelyn Moorhouse director

Jason Robards as Larry Cook

Jessica Lange as Ginny

Michelle Pfeiffer as Rose

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Caroline

• King of Texas (TV, USA, 2002) is a Western adaptation of King Lear.

Uli Edel director

Patrick Stewart as John Lear

Macbeth

This is a summary of the main article Macbeth on screen.

The most significant screen performances are:

• Macbeth (USA, 1948), Orson Welles director
• Macbeth (1954 TV special), (USA, 1954), George Schaefer, director, a live television production now preserved on kinescope
• Macbeth (1960 film), (UK, 1960), George Schaefer director, a filmed-on-location adaptation with the same two stars and director as the 1954 production. Shown on TV in the U.S. and in theatres in Europe
• 'Play of the Month' Macbeth (1965 TV, UK), John Gorrie director
• Macbeth (USA and UK, 1971), Roman Polanski director
• Macbeth (UK, 1978, Royal Shakespeare Company), Philip Casson director
• Macbeth (UK, 1981), Arthur Allan Seidelman director
• BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, UK, 1983)
• Macbeth (UK, 1997), Jeremy Freeston and Brian Blessed directors
• Macbeth (TV, UK, 1998), Michael Bogdanov director
• The Animated Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, Russia and UK, 1992), Nicolai Serebryakov director
• Macbeth (Video, UK, 2001, Royal Shakespeare Company), Greg Doran director
• Macbeth (2006 film) (Australia, 2006), Geoffrey Wright director
• Macbeth (2010 film) (UK, 2010), Rupert Goold director

The most significant screen adaptations are:

• Joe MacBeth (UK, 1955), Ken Hughes director
• Throne of Blood (aka Cobweb Castle or Kumonosu-jo) (Japan, 1957), Akira Kurosawa director
• Men of Respect (USA 1991), William Reilly director
• Rave Macbeth (Germany, 2001)
• Scotland, PA (USA, 2001), Billy Morrissette director
• Maqbool (India, 2004), Vishal Bharadwaj director
• ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth (UK, TV, 2005)

Othello

Performances

• Othello (Silent, Germany, 1922)

Dimitri Buchowetzki director

Emil Jannings as Othello

• Othello (UK, 1946)

David MacKane director

Sebastian Cabot as Iago

Sheila Raynor as Emilia

Luanna Shaw as Desdemona

John Slater as Othello

These are the only actors in this 45-minute condensation.

• Othello (USA, 1952)

Orson Welles director and as Othello

Michael MacLiammoir as Iago

Suzanne Cloutier as Desdemona

• Othello (Russia, 1955)

Sergei Yutkevich director and screenplay

Sergei Bondarchuk as Othello

Irina Skobtseva as Desdemona

Andrei Popov as Iago

• Othello (UK, 1965) film of the Royal National Theatre's stage production.

Stuart Burge director

Laurence Olivier as Othello

Frank Finlay as Iago

Maggie Smith as Desdemona

• BBC Television Shakespeare Othello (TV, UK, 1980) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Anthony Hopkins as Othello

• Othello (TV, UK, 1990) videotape of the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production.

Trevor Nunn director

Willard White (the opera singer) as Othello

Imogen Stubbs as Desdemona

Ian McKellen as Iago

• The Animated Shakespeare Othello (TV, Russia and UK, 1994)

Nicolai Serebryakov director

Colin McFarlane as the voice of Othello

Gerald McSorley as the voice of Iago

Sian Thomas as the voice of Desdemona

• Othello (USA, 1995)

Oliver Parker director

Laurence Fishburne as Othello

Kenneth Branagh as Iago

Irene Jacob as Desdemona

Adaptations

• A Double Life (USA, 1947) is a film noir adaptation of the Othello story, in which an actor playing the moor takes on frightening aspects of his character's personality.

George Cukor director

Ronald Colman as Anthony John

• All Night Long (UK, 1962) is an adaptation set in the contemporary London jazz scene.

Basil Dearden director

Patrick McGoohan as Johnnie Cousin (Iago)

Keith Michell as Cass (Cassio)

Paul Harris as Aurelius Rex (Othello)

Marti Stevens as Delia Lane (Desdemona)

• Catch My Soul (USA, 1974) is adapted from the rock musical based on the play.

Patrick McGoohan director

Richie Havens as Othello

Lance LeGault as Iago

Season Hubley as Desdemona

Tony Joe White as Cassio

• Kaliyattam (India, 1997)

Jayaraaj director

Suresh Gopi as Kannan Perumalayan (Othello)

Lal as Paniyan (Iago)

Biju Menon as Kanthan (Cassio)

Manju Warrier as Thamara (Desdemona)

• O (USA, made in 1999, but not released until 2001) is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello.

Tim Blake Nelson director

Mekhi Phifer as Odin James

Josh Hartnett as Hugo

Julia Stiles as Desi

• Othello (TV, UK, 2001) is an adaptation by Andrew Davies of Shakespeare's Othello, set in the police force in modern London.
• Omkara (India, 2006)

Vishal Bharadwaj director

Ajay Devgan as Omkara 'Omi' Shukla (Othello)

Saif Ali Khan as Langda Tyagi (Iago)

Vivek Oberoi as Kesu Firangi (Cassio)

Kareena Kapoor as Dolly Mishra (Desdemona)

Konkona Sen Sharma as Indu (Emilia)

Bipasha Basu as Billo Chamanbahar (Bianca)

Naseeruddin Shah as Bhaisaab (Duke of Venice)

Deepak Dobriyal as Rajan ’Rajju’ Tiwari (Roderigo)

• Iago (Italy, 2009) is an adaptation directed by Volfango De Biasi.

Iago (Nicolas Vaporidis) is an architecture school student about to graduate who falls in love with his fellow student Desdemona (Laura Chiatti), the noble and beautiful daughter of the academic dean, professor Brabanzio (Gabriele Lavia). Both his career and love hopes are ruined when Otello (Aurelien Gaya), a young and handsome french nobleman, comes on the scene. With the help of his friends Emilia (Giulia Steigerwalt) and Roderigo (Lorenzo Gleijeses), Iago will achieve his revenge by playing everyone against each other through a complex scheme of lies.

Romeo and Juliet

This is a brief of the main articles Romeo and Juliet on screen and Romeo and Juliet (films), where a complete list may be found.

See also the main article for the play Romeo and Juliet.

The most significant screen performances are:

• Romeo and Juliet (USA, 1908), J. Stuart Blackton director
• Romeo and Juliet (USA, 1936), George Cukor director
• Romeo and Juliet (UK, 1954), Renato Castellani director
• Romeo and Juliet (Italy, 1968), Franco Zeffirelli director
• BBC Television Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (TV, UK, 1978) (videotaped)
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (USA, 1982), William Woodman director
• The Animated Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (TV, Russia and UK, 1992) Efim Gamburg director
• Romeo+Juliet (USA, 1996) Baz Luhrmann director

The most significant screen adaptations are:

• West Side Story (USA, 1961), Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins directors
• Romie-0 and Julie-8 (Canada, 1979), Clive A. Smith, director
• Tromeo and Juliet (USA, 1996), Lloyd Kaufman director
• Romeo Must Die (2000), Andrzej Bartkowiak director
• Gnomeo and Juliet (2011), Kelly Asbury director

Timon of Athens

• BBC Television Shakespeare Timon of Athens (TV, UK, 1981) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Jonathan Miller Director

Jonathan Pryce as Timon

Norman Rodway as Apemantus

John Bird and John Fortune as the Painter and the Poet

Titus Andronicus

Performances

• BBC Television Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (TV, UK, 1985) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• Titus (USA, 1999)

Julie Taymor director

Anthony Hopkins as Titus Andronicus

Jessica Lange as Tamora

Alan Cumming as Saturninus

• Titus Andronicus (USA, 1999)

Christopher Dunne director

Robert Reece (actor) as Titus Andronicus

Candy K. Sweet as Tamora

Troilus and Cressida

Performances

• BBC Television Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida (TV, UK, 1981) (videotaped)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Histories

Henry IV Part 1

Performances

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Tom Fleming as Henry IV

Robert Hardy as Hal

Frank Pettingell as Falstaff

Sean Connery as Hotspur

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV Part I (UK, TV, 1979)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Anthony Quayle as Falstaff

Jon Finch as Henry IV

David Gwillim as Hal

Tim Pigott-Smith as Hotspur

• The War of the Roses Henry IV Part 1 (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.
• Henry IV, Part 1 (UK, TV, BBC2, 2012)

Richard Eyre director

Jeremy Irons as Henry IV

Tom Hiddleston as Hal

Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff

Joe Armstrong as Hotspur

Adaptations

• Chimes at Midnight (aka "Falstaff") (USA, 1967) is an amalgamation of scenes from Richard II, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Orson Welles director and as Falstaff

Keith Baxter as Hal

John Gielgud as Henry IV

• My Own Private Idaho (USA, 1991) is loosely based on Henry IV, Part 1, with elements from the other "Hal" plays.

Gus Van Sant director

River Phoenix as Mike Waters

Keanu Reeves as Scott Favor

Henry IV Part 2

Performances

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Tom Fleming as Henry IV

Robert Hardy as Hal

Frank Pettingell as Falstaff

• The War of the Roses television miniseries 1965

Directed by John Barton and Peter Hall

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV Part II (TV, UK, 1979)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Anthony Quayle as Falstaff

Jon Finch as Henry IV

David Gwillim as Hal

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry IV Part 2 (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.
• Henry IV, Part 2 (UK, TV, BBC2, 2012)

Richard Eyre director

Jeremy Irons as Henry IV

Tom Hiddleston as Hal

Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff

Adaptations

• Chimes at Midnight (aka "Falstaff") (USA, 1967) is an amalgamation of scenes from Richard II, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Orson Welles director and as Falstaff

Keith Baxter as Hal

John Gielgud as Henry IV

• See also My Own Private Idaho.

Henry V

Performances

• Henry V (UK, 1944)

Laurence Olivier director and as Henry V

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Robert Hardy as Henry V

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry V (TV, UK, 1979)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• Henry V (UK, 1989)

Kenneth Branagh director and as Henry V

Ian Holm as Fluellen

Brian Blessed as Exeter

Emma Thompson as Katherine

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry V (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.

Adaptations

• Chimes at Midnight (aka "Falstaff") (USA, 1967) is an amalgamation of scenes from Richard II, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Orson Welles director and as Falstaff

Keith Baxter as Hal

John Gielgud as Henry IV

• The first series of The Black Adder (TV, UK, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V.
• See also My Own Private Idaho.

Henry VI Part 1

Performances

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Terry Scully as Henry VI

Eileen Atkins as Joan

• The War of the Roses television miniseries 1965

Directed by John Barton and Peter Hall

David Warner as Henry VI

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry VI Part I (TV, UK, 1983)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry VI – House of Lancaster (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays. This play is formed from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 1 and from the earlier scenes of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2.

Henry VI Part 2

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Terry Scully as Henry VI

• The War of the Roses television miniseries 1965

Directed by John Barton and Peter Hall

David Warner as Henry VI

Ian Holm as Richard

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry VI Part II (TV, UK, 1983)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry VI – House of Lancaster (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays. This play is formed from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 1 and from the earlier scenes of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2.
• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry VI – House of York (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays. This play is formed from the later scenes of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2 and from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3.

Henry VI Part 3

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Terry Scully as Henry VI

Julian Glover as Edward

Paul Daneman as Richard

• The War of the Roses television miniseries 1965

Directed by John Barton and Peter Hall

David Warner as Henry VI

Ian Holm as Richard Duke of Gloucester

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry VI Part III (TV, UK, 1983)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry VI – House of York (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays. This play is formed from the later scenes of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2 and from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3.

Henry VIII

• BBC Television Shakespeare Henry VIII (TV, UK, 1979)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

King John

• BBC Television Shakespeare King John (TV, UK, 1984)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

Richard II

Performances

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

David William as Richard II

Tom Fleming as Bolingbroke

• BBC Television Shakespeare Richard II (TV, UK, 1978)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Richard II (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.
• Richard II (UK, TV, 1997)

Deborah Warner director

Fiona Shaw as Richard II

Richard Bremner as Bolingbroke

Graham Crowden as John of Gaunt

Kevin McKidd as Hotspur

• Richard The Second (USA, 2001)

John Farrell director

Matte Osian as Richard

Adaptations

• Chimes at Midnight (aka "Falstaff") (USA, 1967) is an amalgamation of scenes from Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Orson Welles director and as Falstaff

Keith Baxter as Hal

John Gielgud as Henry IV

Richard III

Performances

• Richard III (UK, 1955)

Laurence Olivier director and as Richard

John Gielgud as Clarence

Ralph Richardson as Buckingham

Claire Bloom as Lady Anne

• An Age of Kings (UK, TV, Miniseries 1960)

Michael Hayes director

Julian Glover as Edward IV

Paul Daneman as Richard III

Jerome Willis as Richmond

• The War of the Roses television miniseries 1965

Directed by John Barton and Peter Hall

Ian Holm as Richard III

• BBC Television Shakespeare Richard III (TV, UK, 1982)

Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series.

• The War of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Richard III (UK, 1990)

A direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.

• The Animated Shakespeare King Richard III (TV, Russia and UK, 1994)

Natalia Orlova director

Antony Sher as the voice of Richard

• Richard III (1995 film) (UK, 1995)

Richard Loncraine director

Ian McKellen as Richard

Annette Bening as Elizabeth

Nigel Hawthorne as Clarence

Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Anne

Maggie Smith as the Duchess of York

• Richard III, 2008

Adaptations

• The Goodbye Girl (USA, 1977) contains scenes in which the Richard Dreyfuss character rehearses and performs Richard III.
• The first series of The Black Adder (TV, UK, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V.
• Looking for Richard (USA, 1996) is a documentary account of Al Pacino's quest to perform Richard III, featuring substantial excerpts from the play. It includes the talents of Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey.

Other

Shakespeare as a character

• Shakespeare Writing 'Julius Caesar' (Silent Short, 1907) is the probable first appearance of Shakespeare as a character.^[4]
• William Shakespeare - His Life & Times (TV, UK, 1978) was a 6-part mini-series recounting Shakespeare's life in London. Produced by Cecil Clarke, directed by Mark Collingham and Robert Knights and written by John Mortimer. Tim Curry played Shakespeare, with Nicholas Clay as the Earl of Southampton, Patience Collier as Queen Elizabeth I and Ian McShane as Christopher Marlowe.
• Shakespeare in Love (UK, 1998) is a fictional love story about Shakespeare's romance with a noblewoman, at the time of writing Romeo and Juliet.

John Madden director

Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard screenwriters

Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare

Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola De Lesseps

Colin Firth as Lord Wessex

Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I

• A Waste of Shame (UK, TV, 2005) is a dramatisation of Shakespeare's life at the time of writing the Sonnets.

John McKay director

Rupert Graves as Shakespeare

Anna Chancellor as Anne Shakespeare

Tom Sturridge as the Fair Youth (interpreted as William Herbert)

Indira Varma as the Dark Lady (named Lucie)

Andrew Tiernan as the Rival Poet (interpreted as Ben Jonson)

• The Shakespeare Code is an episode of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, first screened on 7 April 2007. Dean Lennox Kelly plays the Bard in the story, set in 1599.
• Shakespeare makes cameo appearances in:
  • Looking for Richard
  • Blackadder: Back & Forth
  • Histeria!

Acting Shakespeare

• To Be or Not To Be (USA, 1942) is the story of an acting company in 1939 Poland.

Ernst Lubitsch director

• Shakespeare Wallah (UK, 1965) is the story of an acting company in India.

James Ivory director

Felicity Kendal as Lizzie

Shashi Kapoor as Sanju

Madhur Jaffrey (later famous as a TV chef) as Manjula

• The Goodbye Girl (USA, 1977) contains scenes in which the Richard Dreyfuss character rehearses and performs Richard III.
• To Be or Not To Be is a remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film.

Mel Brooks director

• The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story includes a badly-performed rendition of Hamlet's graveyard speech (not by Baum, who plays a watchman, though he did play Hamlet over 200 times in real life).

Jack Bender director

• Dead Poets Society (USA, 1989) portrays a student (played by Robert Sean Leonard) who performs the role of Puck in a school production of A Midsummer's Night Dream against his father's wishes.
• In The Bleak Midwinter (aka "A Midwinter's Tale") (UK, 1996) tells the story of a group of actors performing Hamlet.

Kenneth Branagh director

Michael Maloney as Joe (Hamlet)

Julia Sawalha as Nina (Ophelia)

• Looking for Richard (USA, 1996) is a documentary account of Al Pacino's quest to perform Richard III, featuring substantial excerpts from the play. It includes the talents of Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey.
• RSC Production Casebook – The Winter's Tale a straight-to-video documentary of the RSC production listed separately above, including interviews with Antony Sher, Greg Doran, Cicely Berry (the RSC's voice coach) and other members of the cast and crew, together with lengthy excerpts from the show itself.
• See also Shakespeare in Love above.

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, 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.

• The Shakespeare Sessions (USA 19??) was an American spin-off from Playing Shakespeare (above) in which John Barton directs notable American actors in Shakespeare scenes.
• The first series of The Black Adder (TV, UK, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V.
• Conjuring Shakespeare (TV, UK, 199?) was 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) was a BBC documentary series of four 1-hour episodes, chronicling the life of William Shakespeare, written and presented by Michael Wood.
• Slings and Arrows (TV, Canada, 2003–2006) was 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 and Mark McKinney, directed by 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) is 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 Two, Titus Andronicus, 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 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 Simpsons Game (2007). He appears as a guard blocking the entrance to heaven from Homer and Bart. He was voiced by Maurice LaMarche.

References

Further reading

• Brode, Douglas. "Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Today." (Oxford University Press, 2001).
• Buchanan, Judith. Shakespeare on Film. (Longman-Pearson, 2005). ISBN 0582437164.
• Buchanan, Judith. Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse. (Cambridge University Press, 2009). ISBN 0521871999.
• Buhler, Stephen. "Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof", (State University of New York Press, 2002).
• Burt, Richard. Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture. Revised, paperback edition with a new preface. (New York: St. Martin's Press / London: Macmillan Press, 1999), xxvii. 318 pp.
• Burt, Richard, ed. Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vol. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006), viii; 862 pp.
• Burt, Richard, ed. Shakespeare After Mass Media. (New York and London: Palgrave, 2002).
• Burt, Richard and Lynda Boose, ed. Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD. (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2003), xi, 340 pp.
• Burt, Richard and Lynda Boose, ed. Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. (New York and London: Routledge Press, 1997), ix, 280 pp. Korean translation, 2001.
• Jackson, Russell (ed.) "The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film" (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• McKernan, Luke and Olwen Terris, Ed. "WALKING SHADOWS: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive" (BFI Publishing, 1994). A detailed listing of performances, adaptations and allusions to Shakespeare in film and on television.
• Olwen Terris, Eve-Marie Oesterlen and Luke McKernan (ed.) "Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher's Guide" (London, BUFVC Publishing, 2009)
• Pitcaithly, Marcus. Shakespeare on Film: An Encyclopedia (2010)
• ^ Rothwell, Kenneth S. "Shakespeare in silence: from stage to screen." A History of Shakespeare on Screen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Jackson, Russell. "Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception", (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

External links

• Internet Movie Database listing for William Shakespeare (writer)
• Shakespeare classics; 7 early film adaptations
• Bardolatry.com -- reviews of Shakespeare-on-film.
• ShakespeareFlix: Shakespeare Movie Resources
• An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
• Shakespeare on Screen, An International Filmography and Videography

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