(Personal preferences*)

Taming of the Shrew (S. Taylor; 1929)

Taming of the Shrew (Zeffirelli; Burton & Taylor)

Taming (Jonathan Miller; with J. Cleese) *

Moonlighting TV version of Taming (B. Willis & C Shepherd)

A Midsummer Night's Dream  (M. Reinhardt; 1930s Hollywood star-studded cast)

                               MND (D. Eriksen)                                                                                                               

                       MND (Peter Hall) *

                       MND (Michael Hoffman) 

                       A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)

                       The Merchant of Venice (Laurence Olivier)

                           Much Ado (Branagh) *  

                          Twelfth Night (Trevor Nunn, 1996)

                 Hamlet (Olivier) *                                                                                          

                 Hamlet (T. Richardson)                                                       

                 Hamlet (Branagh) *

                         Hamlet (Zeffirelli) *  

                         Hamlet (Kozintzen—Russian) *

                        Hamlet (Ragnar Oyth—Swedish) *

           The Lion King (Disney’s Hamlet)                                            

           King Lear (Richard  Eyre) *

           King Lear (Peter Brook)

           Ran (Lear—Kurosawa; Japanese) *

                                                      "The Conscience of the King," Star Trek TOS (Lear)

                                                       Romeo and Juliet (G. Cukor; 1936)

                                                       Romeo (R. Castellani)                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Romeo (P. Czinner; ballet with R. Nureyev)                                 

Romeo (Zeffirelli) *  

Shakespeare’s Romeo (Luhrmann)

West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet meets Broadway)

Julius Caesar (J. Mankiewicz; with M. Brando) *

Julius Caesar (S. Burge; with C. Heston) * 

Othello (Wells) *

Othello (S. Burge; with Olivier)

Othello (with Laurence Fishburne and  Kenneth Branagh)        

Othello (with W. Marshall & J. Agutter)

Macbeth (Wells) *

                                                          Macbeth (Polanski) *

                                                          Throne of Blood (Macbeth)

                                                          Men of Respect (W. Reilly; Macbeth)

                                                          Titus Andronicus

Richard III (Olivier) *         

              Richard III (I. McKellen)  

           Looking for Richard (Pacino; about acting Shakespeare)

           Henry V (Olivier) *

           Henry V (Branagh) *

           My Own Private Idaho (Henry 4, pt. 1)

           Chimes at Midnight (O. Wells; Henry 4, pts. 1 & 2) * (bad sound)

The Winter’s Tale (F. Dunlop; 1968)

Prospero’s Books (with J. Gielgud)

The Tempest (J. Cassavetes)

Forbidden Planet (50s sci-fi version of The Tempest)

All 37 plays of Shakespeare are also available on video tape and DVD from the BBC