Shakespeare Meme

[saavedra77]

from verbicide

Bold the ones you've seen stage productions of, italicize the ones you've seen movies of, and underline the ones you've read or listened to:

All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It (Ken Branagh's adaptation)
The Comedy of Errors (BBC production with Roger Daltrey playing the twins)
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet (Lawrence Olivier, Nicol Williamson, Ken Branagh's versions)
Henry IV, Part I (BBC production, and Orson Welles The Chimes at Midnight)
Henry IV, Part II (Ditto)
Henry V (Lawrence Olivier's & Ken Branagh's versions, plus Welles' Chimes & a Seattle Shakespeare Company production)
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar (Joseph Mankiewicz' adaptation--the one with Marlon Brando as Brutus)
King John
King Lear (Paul Scofield & Lawrence Olivier's versions)
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth (Roman Polanski's version, as well as Kurusawa's Throne of Blood)
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice (BBC production)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Michael Hoffman's 1999 adaptation with Kevin Kline, plus stage versions of varying quality ...)
Much Ado about Nothing (Branagh's version ...)
Othello (Orson Welles', Lawrence Olivier's , Oliver Parker's, Trevor Nunn's, etc., plus several stage versions)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III (Lawrence Olivier's & Richard Loncraine's tellings)
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli's &, yes, Luhrmann's, plus a skein of amateur theatricals ...)
The Taming of the Shrew (Zeffirelli's, & a college production, once)
The Tempest (Derek Jarman's & Peter Greenaway's, plus a Seattle Shakespeare Company production)
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night (Trevor Nunn's lovely 1996 version ...)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale

Comments

[jmargethe.livejournal.com]

ok, we're just counting straight-forward adaptations, right? Not 'clever' adaptation thingys like that hip-hop dance film that was an othello retelling...
cuz i can't be bothered with those. i'll do this tonight.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

ok, we're just counting straight-forward adaptations, right?

Yeah, mostly. Although Chimes at Midnight (i.e., Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 & parts of Henry V) and Greenaway's Prospero's Books (i.e., The Tempest) are somewhat less than straightforward, they rely on language, plot, characters, many of the themes of the original--the differences are mostly matters of staging, storytelling style.

But I'm personally not counting modern-language movies that are are only "loosely-based" on Shakespeare's plays--things like West Side Story, Clueless, or O.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Sorry: I meant Ten Things I Hate About You (based on The Taming of the Shrew), not Clueless (based on Jane Austen's Emma ...).

[jmargethe.livejournal.com]

yeah, see, i wouldn't count prospero's books, because that is more "inspired by..." than "adapted version". it's murky waters, this meme of yours!

clueless is austen's emma, not shakespeare, i believe? but yeah - that kinda thing.

[jmargethe.livejournal.com]

ah, you already caught that.