As an aside, why would you ever go to the theater with Roderick Alleyn? It's like asking Jessica Fletcher over for the weekend.

snork. Of course, the same goes for living near Miss Marple.

Sports Night also has a St. Crispin's Day reference, though it's not crucial to the episode. (Just to a really slashy reading.)

There's also an... interesting German play called HamletMachine [link] Very German.

OH! Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth [link]

Better than either R&G are Dead or Rock 'N' Roll, in my opinion. Also why I will occasionally say "Gymshoes" in a Mr. Burns-like fashion. It's a fantastic set of plays.

In the Bleak MidWinter [link]

The Danny DeVito movie Renaissance Man is about an English teacher teaching Shakespeare to Army recruits. Not a great movie, but it has its moments, and uses the St. Crispin's Day speech in a pivotal scene to show Shakespeare relating directly to modern day life, and demonstrate that he can still speak to us 400 years later.

Kurosawa's Lear is called Ran I actually did a list of these for work a while back. Lemme see if I can dig it up again.

Fron the bit o paper I found My Kingdom=Lear, My Own Private Idaho=Henry IV, Scotland, PA=McBeth

There was an off-Broadway play back in the late sixties called MacBird! that had LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson as Macbeth and Mrs. (and JFK in the Duncan role).

BTW there is a 2009 Macbeth with Anthony Stewart Head as Duncan, but I can't figure out how to get it.

Star Trek was riddled with Shakespeare, both in quotations and titles, plus plays were used directly in such episodes as "The Conscience of the King" and "Catspaw."

The hero of Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel saves the world with Shakespeare quotations.

The Danny DeVito movie Renaissance Man is about an English teacher teaching Shakespeare to Army recruits.

Yay, Sean! I was trying to think of this one and drawing a blank. You're right, not a great movie, but def. had its moments.