Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Othello (2001)- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Christopher Eccleston, Eamonn Walker, Keeley Hawes… - Andrew Davies' brilliantly distilled screenplay brings Othello's universal themes of love and obsession into the format of a modern crime drama set…
Hamlet (2000)- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray… - Setting Shakespeare’s play in the contemporary corporate world, the dir. of NADJA brings a fresh slant to the classic despite low–budget…
Hamlet (2000)- Dir. Campbell Scott
Feat. Campbell Scott, Blair Brown, Jamey Sheridan… - Solid television version of Shakespeare's great tragedy, transposed to late–19th century America by dir. and star Campbell Scott, in a bold but…
Merchant of Venice, The (2000)- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Henry Goodman - A wonderful TV version (taken from an acclaimed production) of Shakespeare's 'problem play', recreating the classic tale of debt, honour and love in…
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (2000)- Dir. Adrian Noble
- A version of William Shakespeare's classic comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company, which utilises special effects to realise the play's fantasy…
O (Othello) (2000)
- Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles - Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)- Dir. Gil Junger
Feat. Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles - Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is shrink–wrapped as '90s high–school hi–jinks. A protective Dad forbids his nubile daughter…
Love's Labour's Lost (1999)- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, Timothy Spall… - Untiring Shakespearean–enthusiast Kenneth Branagh, labours his latest adaptation: the Bard’s sparkling early comedy made over as a 30s Irving…
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1999)- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci… - Played out in 19th century Tuscany, Shakespeare's most enchanted comedy places its collection of fairies, rude mechanicals and humans in…
Titus (1999)- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming… - A ferocious, no–holds–barred reading by Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange and Alan Cumming of Shakespeare's early play, the baroque, and…
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