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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."
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
Deadwood, although it was only *described* as Shakespearean, but I think it counts.
I think A Thousand Acres is a version of King Lear, but I've neither read the book nor seen the movie, so I'm not sure why I'm mentioning it. But I am.
Anthony Burgess
Thank you, I thought Burgess was right but could only come up with Meredith to go with it...
Several of Ngaio Marsh's mystery novels featuring Roderick Alleyn deal with theater productions of Shakespeare.
(As an aside, why would you ever go to the theater with Roderick Alleyn? It's like asking Jessica Fletcher over for the weekend.)
There's Forbidden Planet, of course.
The Shakespeare Lucinda reads with her Uncle Earle becomes the heart of Roller Skates, which is a truly wonderful book with one of the best explanations of tragedy ever.
There's the King and Duke in Huckleberry Finn and the St. Crispin's day reference in Buffy. In Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Dan and Una accidentally call up Puck by performing A Midsummer Night's Dream three times at the summer solstice.
Thank you, I thought Burgess was right but could only come up with Meredith to go with it...
Bwahahahahaha!!!!
And now I'm suddenly thinking about FDR's influence on Meredith's Penguin.
Strange Brew!
Ahahahahaha!!! It's funny because it's true!
Oh, the BBC productions of The Animated Shakespeare which aired in the U.S. on HBO.
And, of course, there's Pratchett - both Wyrd Sisters and Lords and Ladies use Shakespearean plots (Macbeth and Dream, respectively)
Plus, there's the 3rd story of Gaiman's Dream Country in which Titania and Oberon actually see Midsummer Night's Dream performed for them
Robert LePage did a one-person Hamlet called Elsinore.