Here’s remade masterpost of free and full shakespeare adaptations! Thanks @william-shakespeare-official for this excellent post. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in it are broken, so I thought I’d make an updated version (also I just wanted to organize things a bit more)
- Anthony and Cleopatra:
~ Josette Simon, Antony Byrne & Ben Allen – 2017- As You Like It:
~ At Wolfe Park – 2013
~ Kenneth Brannagh’s – 2006- Coriolanus:
~ NYET Alumni – 2016
~ Tom Hiddleston – 2014
~ Ralph Fiennes – 2011- Cymbelline:
~ Michael Almereyda’s – 2014- Hamlet:
~ David Tennant – 2009
~ Ethan Hawke & Diane Venora – 2000
~ Kenneth Branagh’s – 1989
~ BCC’s Part One & Two – 1990
~ Broadway – 1964
~ Christopher Plummer – 1964
~ Laurence Olivier’s – 1948- Henry IV:
~ BBC’s Part One & Two – 1989
~ The Brussel’s Shakespeare Society’s – 2017- Henry V:
~ The BBC’s – 1990
~ Laurence Olivier’s – 1944- Julius Caesar:
~ Phyllida Lloyd’s – 2019
~ The BBC’s – 1979
~ John Gielgud – 1970- King Lear:
~ The RSC’s – 2008
~ Laurence Olivier – 1983
~ The BBC’s – 1975
~ James Earl Jones – 1974
~ Orson Wells – 1953- Love’s Labour’s Lost:
~ Calvin University – 2016- Macbeth:
~ Antoni Cimolino & Shelagh O’Brien’s – 2017
~ Ian McKellen & Judi Dench – 1969
~ Sean Connery – 1961- Measure for Measure:
~ Hugo Weaving – 2019
~ The BBC’s – 1990- The Merchant of Venice:
~ Al Pacino – 2004
~ Trevor Nunn & Chris Hunt – 2001
~ The BBC’s – 1980
~ Lawrence Olivier – 1973- The Merry Wives of Windsor:
~ The Royal Shakespeare Company’s – 1982- A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
~ Oliver Chris & Gwendoline Christie – 2019
~ City of Columbus’s – 2018
~ The Globe’s – 2013
~ The BBC’s – 1988
~ Lindsay Duncan & Alex Jennings – 1986- Much Ado About Nothing:
~ Shakespeare in the Park – 2019
~ Kenneth Branagh – 1993
~ The BBC’s – 1984- Othello:
~ The BBC’s Part One & Two – 1990- Richard II:
~ David Tennant – 2013
~ Deborah Warner’s – 1997
~ The BBC’s – 1978- Richard III:
~ Ian McKellen – 1995
~ Laurence Olivier – 1955- Romeo and Juliet:
~ Simon Godwin’s – 2021
~ The BBC’s – 1988
~ Laurence Harvey & Susan Shentall – 1954- The Taming of the Shrew:
~ Ontario production?
~ American Conservatory Theater – 1976
~ Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor – 1967
~ Mary Pickford & Samuel Taylor – 1929- The Tempest:
~ Gregory Doran’s – 2017
~ The BBC’s – 1988- Timon of Athens:
~ Barry Avrich’s – 2024- Troilus and Cressida:
~ Audio Production
~ This one I found on youtube? – 2016- Titus Andronicus:
~ Anthony Hopkins – 1999- Twelfth night:
~ Texas Shakespeare Festival’s – 2015
~ Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright & Ralph Richardson – 1970- Two Gentlemen of Verona:
~ Katherine Steweart’s – 2018
~ The BBC’s- The Winter’s Tale:
~ Antony Sher – 1999 (Warning: they don’t have a bear…)Bonuses:
- Time Loop Hamlet! (A personal fav of mine)
- Rock Opera Hamlet???
- Shakespeare animated tales
- The Complete Works Of Shakespeare Abridged comedy
From the original post:
- A Midwinter’s Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.
- Russian Hamlet here
- Here’s Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern Hamlet retelling.
- Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here.
- This one is the Taming of the Shrew modern retelling.
- The french Romeo & Juliet musical with English subtitles is here!
- Here’s the 1948 one,
- the Orson Wells Othello movie with Portuguese subtitles there
- A Lego adaptation of Othello here.
- Here’s commentary on David Tennant’s Richard II
