Shakespeare

The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.

Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson brings Shakespeare's tragedy to the screen - with searing performances from Nicol Williamson as the melancholy Dane and future Academy Award-winner Anthony Hopkins as the deceitful Claudius.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

In this updated version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, a young man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder.

A failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, Arizona students as he conceives and stages a politically-incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in the ganglands of Melbourne.

Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever.

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.

An Italian boy and Chinese girl fall in love in New York, igniting a conflict between their ethnic gangs.

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."

Turf wars. Violent betrayals. A family torn apart by greed and jealousy. And one man who wants to rule the gang-ravaged streets of East L.A.

In this adaptation of William Shakespeare's King Lear, self-made ranch tycoon John Lear divides his holdings amongst his daughters, but finds that once they have his property, they reject him.

In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.