Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious—certainly his most popular—filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love.
Unlike previous studies of Shakespeare's cinematic history, Shakespeare in the Movies proceeds chronologically, in...