This is an index to my Shakespeare notes, on the plays at this site and on movie adaptations over at Alex on Film. I’ll keep updating this page as I go along.
General
Theater of Blood (1973)
The Dresser (1983)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Anonymous (2011)
Last Will & Testament (2012)
The Dresser (2015)
All Is True (2018)
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Henry VI
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016)
Richard III
Richard III (1911)
Richard III (1912)
Tower of London (1939)
Richard III (1955)
Tower of London (1962)
Richard III (1995)
Looking for Richard (1996)
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016)
Titus (1999)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
The Taming of the Shrew (2005)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
West Side Story (1961)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
Warm Bodies (2013)
Richard II
Richard II (2012)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017)
King John
King John (1899)
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
1 and 2 Henry IV
Chimes at Midnight (1966)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Henry IV, Part One (2012)
Henry IV, Part Two (2012)
H4 (2012)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Much Ado About Nothing (2005)
Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
Henry V
Henry V (1944)
Henry V (1989)
Henry V (2012)
Julius Caesar (1908)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Julius Caesar (1970)
Caesar Must Die (2021)
As You Like It (1936)
As You Like It (2006)
As You Like It (2019)
Twelfth Night (1910)
Twelfth Night (1988)
Twelfth Night (1996)
She’s the Man (2006)
Hamlet (1910)
Hamlet (1913)
Hamlet (1948)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Hamlet (1964)
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
Strange Brew (1983)
Hamlet (1990)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
The Lion King (1994)
Hamlet (1996)
Hamlet (2000)
Prince of the Himalayas (2006)
Hamlet (2009)
Ophelia (2018)
The Northman (2022)
Troilus and Cressida
All’s Well That Ends Well
Othello (1922)
A Double Life (1947)
Othello (1951)
Othello (1965)
Othello (1995)
O (2001)
Measure for Measure (2006)
King Lear (1909)
King Lear (1910)
King Lear (1916)
King Lear (1970)
Ran (1985)
King Lear (1987)
King Lear (2018)
Macbeth (1948)
Joe Macbeth (1955)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962)
Macbeth (1971)
Macbeth (1979)
Scotland, Pa (2001)
Macbeth (2005)
Macbeth (2010)
Macbeth (2015)
The Moving Forest (2015)
Lady Macbeth (2016)
Antony and Cleopatra
Timon of Athens
Coriolanus
Coriolanus (2011)
Pericles
Cymbeline (1913)
Cymbeline (2014)
The Winter’s Tale
The Winter’s Tale (1910)
A Tale of Winter (1992)
The Tempest
Yellow Sky (1948)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Tempest (1979)
Prospero’s Books (1991)
The Tempest (2010)
Henry VIII
The Two Noble Kinsmen

Are the dates after the titles the year that you saw each film?
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I even collected the opening night ticket stubs.
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Is that Shakespeare in the photo with you? What was he like? Why are some of his best films like Rocky IV not on this list?
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It’s *a* Shakespeare. Just not Bill. I haven’t got to the Rocky films yet, but he wanted his name kept off the credits anyway.
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That’s a lot of Shakespeares, are there any left to do?
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Oh there’s always more, but I’ll be taking a break for a while now. Planning to do some more Chekhov.
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Great, Star Trek was his best for sure!
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I cried when they nuked the cherry orchard on Rigel VII with photon torpedoes.
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Bring on a photon torpedo in act one…
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