There’s a wealth of Shakespearean content available on film and this is just a mere scratching of the surface that takes in:
Five Kenneth Branaghs – Henry V, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It, as well as the Othello in which he starred but did not direct;
Four takes on Romeo and Juliet – gay soldiers, animated gnomes, Baz Luhrmann and Orlando Bloom on a motorbike…
Three Macbeths – are you Sher, look at my Fassbender and Dench and McKellen’s masterclass
Two more McKellens in Othello and Richard III
And a Coriolanus
A Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Maxine Peake’s superb Hamlet
Plus Brucie bonuses in the real-life backstage film of The Bridge Project and a fictional backstage film called A Midwinter’s Tale.
Happy readin
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