Brush up your Shakespeare
Dec. 14th, 2004 09:37 pmThe Shakespeare Meme, gathered from
londonkds.
Read and seen on stage
Comedy of Errors
Hamlet (also various film versions)
Henry V (also 2 film versions)
Julius Caesar (plus film version)
King Lear (lots of tv and film versions as well - did a seminar about this play)
Macbeth (ditto)
Merchant of Venice (ditto)
Midsummer Nights Dream (ditto)
Richard II
Richard III (plus the Olivier and McKellan film versions)
Romeo and Juliet (plus two of the film versions)
The Taming of the Shrew (plus two film versions, one adaption)
The Tempest (plus excentric adaptions)
Twelfth Night (plus various tv incarnations)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Winter's Tale
Titus Andronicus (plus Julie Taymour film)
Othello (plus two film versions)
Read, but seen as film or tv only
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2 (have to add that I saw these two in their Wellesian form, i.e. Chimes of Midnight)
Love's Labour's Lost
Much Ado About Nothing
Alls Well That Ends Well
Read, but not seen in any incarnation
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Timon of Athens
Neither read nor seen
Pericles
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Cymbeline
Coriolanus
Merry Wives of Windsor
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...though I did read the "new" last act of Cymbeline which George Bernard Shaw wrote, and know the Fear no more the heat o' sun incantation.
In other news: check out a timely Christmas tale! What she said. Err.
Read and seen on stage
Comedy of Errors
Hamlet (also various film versions)
Henry V (also 2 film versions)
Julius Caesar (plus film version)
King Lear (lots of tv and film versions as well - did a seminar about this play)
Macbeth (ditto)
Merchant of Venice (ditto)
Midsummer Nights Dream (ditto)
Richard II
Richard III (plus the Olivier and McKellan film versions)
Romeo and Juliet (plus two of the film versions)
The Taming of the Shrew (plus two film versions, one adaption)
The Tempest (plus excentric adaptions)
Twelfth Night (plus various tv incarnations)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Winter's Tale
Titus Andronicus (plus Julie Taymour film)
Othello (plus two film versions)
Read, but seen as film or tv only
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2 (have to add that I saw these two in their Wellesian form, i.e. Chimes of Midnight)
Love's Labour's Lost
Much Ado About Nothing
Alls Well That Ends Well
Read, but not seen in any incarnation
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Timon of Athens
Neither read nor seen
Pericles
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Cymbeline
Coriolanus
Merry Wives of Windsor
***
...though I did read the "new" last act of Cymbeline which George Bernard Shaw wrote, and know the Fear no more the heat o' sun incantation.
In other news: check out a timely Christmas tale! What she said. Err.