Our pick of the best Shakespeare film adaptations of all time, from The Lion King to West Side Story
by Harry Fletcher
Apr 22, 2024
2 minutes
It’s a testament to the quality of Shakespeare’s stories that more than 400 years after they were written, they’re still being adapted for film.
Hollywood has returned to the Bard for inspiration time and again, from the earliest days of movie making through to today’s contemporary offerings. There have been loyal adaptations that have stuck rigidly to Shakespeare’s prose, films that have transported his words to new times
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