Terry Teachout recommends several film adaptations of Shakespearean plays. This is the kind of thing my sweet little family doesn’t want to watch with me.
Terry Teachout recommends several film adaptations of Shakespearean plays. This is the kind of thing my sweet little family doesn’t want to watch with me.
I agree with him about Much Ado About Nothing… I LOVE that movie. I just wish I could edit out about 10 seconds.
I notice Mel’s Hamlet didn’t make the list.
And I have to admit, my other favorite Shakespeare adaptation -which I won’t watch anymore due to all the profanity – is 10 Things I Hate About You. Oh how I loved that movie!
I didn’t think Gibson’s Hamlet was that good. It was an abridgement too far. Hamlet is fast moving and strong without abridgement. I need to see more of Sh. plays.
It’s been so long since I saw that movie… I’m sure you’re right. The main thing I remember is that Helena Bonham Carter was marvelous, of course, as Ophelia.
I love Much Ado, too. My father’s all time favorite is Brannaugh’s Henry V.
My favorite, the Ian McKellan version of “Richard III”, is missing. And has no one ever made a good film of “The Tempest”? Because I would love to see that.
Shakespeare movies that every scholar must see:
Scotland, PA — set in the nineteen-seventies, good cast, and almost Macbeth verbatim.
Brannaugh’s Henry V is epic (meaning grandiose, swell, all those good adjectives).
Roman Polanski’s Macbeth is beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous.
Elizabeth Taylor and one of her husbands, I think Richard Burton, in The Taming of the Shrew is good. Man, the ending of that play is always painful to me.
Go rent these.
DeEee.