BTW there is a 2009 Macbeth with Anthony Stewart Head as Duncan, but I can't figure out how to get it.
'Safe'
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."
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.
Men of Respect with Turturo was a gangster version of Macbeth.
Dario Argento's Opera was about murders centered on a production of Verdi's Macbeth (which is also cursed, supposedly).
This is like asking for allusions to the Beatles/Stones/Chuck Berry/Elvis in today's music. Shakespeare's tentacles are in 90% of everything created for stage or screen.
Shakespeare's tentacles are in 90% of everything created for stage or screen.
At one Hamlet performance I saw, the couple behind me spent the ENTIRE FREAKING PLAY gasping and saying "Oh, that's where that line is from!"
Brave New World. Also, Reduced Shakespeare Company.
The Cowboy Wally Show
At one Hamlet performance I saw, the couple behind me spent the ENTIRE FREAKING PLAY gasping and saying "Oh, that's where that line is from!"
Now I'm flashing on the villian from the animated Tick that was a hand puppet: "READ A FRICKIN' BOOK, WHY DON'T YA!!!"
There's Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last by Avi, which is a fun kids book. Also Hamlet 2, while we're on the silly side of things.