Several of Ngaio Marsh's mystery novels featuring Roderick Alleyn deal with theater productions of Shakespeare.
Oz ,'First Date'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Ken Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado. Had an immense effect on making Shakespeare real and relatable for contemporary audiences-- making the dialogue very conversational and shading it with tone and nuance that made it more than a collection of arcane words.
Kurosawa remade Macbeth and King Lear. Both in awesome fashion.
Sons of Anarchy was much like Hamlet, at first.
The Trevor Nunn-directed stage version of Macbeth with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is terrific and pretty groundbreaking, from what I've read.
Songs:
Prospero's Speech - Lorena McKennit
Sister Moon- Sting
Innocent One - Michael Penn
Juliet - Royal Wood
Romeo And Juliet - Dire Straights
the play, Good Morning Desdemona, Goodnight Juliet
The Canadian knows what I'm talking about!
"The Shakespeare Code." Hee.
Strange Brew!
Olivier's Henry V was immensely effective at its release as a patriotic vehicle.
My Own Private Idaho is basically Henry IV
Hamlet has always been a good barometer of national attitudes toward intellectualism, insanity, and military actions. A completely sane Hamlet was only introduced in the nineteenth century.
Looking for Richard