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Movies Inspired by Shakespeare

Some of these directly use Shakespeare’s script while others are loose translations or inspired by Shakespeare’s life.

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1. Much Ado About Nothing  
2. Much Ado About Nothing / New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive)
by Nick Havinga
  
3.
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 Shakespeare Retold: Much Ado About Nothing
by BBC
  
4. King Lear  
5. King Lear
by Michael Elliott
  
6. King Lear / Jones, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive)
by Edwin Sherin
  
7. King Lear (Thames Shakespeare Collection)
by Tony Davenall
  
8. The Orson Welles, Double Feature #1: The Stranger/King Lear  
9. King Lear / Korol Lir
by Grigorij Kozintsev
  
10. King Lear (Korol Lir) (2dvd)
by Grigory Kozintsev
  
11. The Plays of William Shakespeare - King Lear  
12. King Lear / Korol Lir
by Grigory Kozintsev
  
13. The Orson Welles Collection (The Stranger/ King Lear/ David and Goliath/ The Trial)  
14.
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 King Lear (1971)
by Peter Brook
  
15. Othello
by Oliver Parker
  
16. William Shakespeare: Othello
by Trevor Nunn
  
17. Othello
by Geoffrey Sax
  
18. Othello  
19. William Shakespeare's Othello  
20. Lar Lubovitch's Othello / San Francisco Ballet  
21. Orson Welles' Othello
by Orson Welles
  
22. Othello  
23. The Plays of William Shakespeare, Vol. 6 - Othello  
24. The Standard Deviants - Shakespeare Tragedies - Othello, Macbeth, King Lear  
25. O (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Tim Blake Nelson
  
26. 10 Things I Hate About You  
27. The Taming of the Shrew
by Franco Zeffirelli
  
28. The Taming of the Shrew (Broadway Theatre Archive)
by Kirk Browning
  
29. Taming of the Shrew  
30. The Plays of William Shakespeare - The Taming of The Shrew  
31.
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 Shakespeare Retold: The Taming of the Shrew
by BBC
  
32.
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 The Taming of the Shrew
by Franco Zeffirelli
  
33.
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 Taming of the Shrew
by John Allison (III)
  
34. Hamlet
by Franco Zeffirelli
  
35. Hamlet
by Michael Almereyda
  
36. Hamlet - Criterion Collection  
37. Richard Burton's Hamlet
by Bill Colleran
  
38. Hamlet / Kline, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive)  
39. Hamlet
by Campbell Scott
  
40. HAMLET (2 DVDs)/Gamlet
by Grigory Kozintsev
  
42. William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Special Edition)
by Baz Luhrmann
  
43.
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 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
by Baz Luhrmann
  
44. Romeo and Juliet (Thames Shakespeare Collection)
by Joan Kemp-Welch
  
45. Romeo & Juliet
by Franco Zeffirelli
  
46. Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet / Ferri, Eagling, Jefferies, Drew, Hosking, Macmillan, Lawrence, Royal Ballet  
47. Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)- Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn
by Paul Czinner
  
48. Romeo & Juliet  
49. Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet / Corella ยท Ferri - Kenneth MacMillan (Teatro alla Scala 2000)  
50. Richard III
by Richard Loncraine
  
51. Richard III - Criterion Collection  
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Created by bartzturkeymom on Apr 11, 2006.