Play by Play

Here are links to my posts for each play. Favorite films are listed first in each category.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Plot Summary
Live Performances:
Saturday Night Live!
Carnival!

Analysis and Discussion:
Proud Titania
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch Cherry Bomb!
The Course of True Love
Einstein in Fairyland and Horton Hears a Who
Bits and Pieces
Fairy Funny

Film Adaptations (using Shakespeare’s language):
A Dreamy Dream
A Dream Come True
The Madness of Love (animated)
Seeing Green
Worthy of Magritte
BBC = Boisterous, Beautiful, Charming

Film Adaptations (inspired by play):
Smiling on Bergman’s White Night
Dead Poets
BBC = Boisterous, Beautiful, Charming, PART II
Picture This
Fluffisimo
A Rant and a Rave
Woody Allen’s Version

Film Adaptations (musical/ballet):
A Glowing Review
Finally, Bliss
Fairies
Isn’t it Bliss?
The Opera Blues
Taking Two for the Team

All’s Well That Ends Well
Plot Summary
Live Performances: Almost Heaven
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Antony and Cleopatra
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As You Like It
Plot Summary
Live Performances: Shakespeare That Sucketh Not!
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The Comedy of Errors
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Coriolanus
Plot Summary
Live Performances
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Film Adaptations (using Shakespeare’s language):
And It’s One, Two, Three… What Are We Fighting For?
Film Adaptations (inspired by play):

Cymbeline
Plot Summary
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Edward III
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Hamlet
Plot Summary
Live Performances
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The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)

Henry IV part I
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Henry IV part II
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Henry V
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Henry VIII
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Henry VI part I
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Henry VI part II
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Henry VI part III
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Julius Caesar
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King John
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King Lear
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
Plot Summary
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Analysis and Discussion:
Remuneration
Parallels

Film Adaptations (using Shakespeare’s language):
An About Face
To Wit, To Woo

Film Adaptations (musical/ballet):
I Get No Kick From Champagne

Macbeth
Plot Summary
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Measure For Measure
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The Merchant of Venice
Plot Summary
Live Performances:
Bare Bard
Almost Heaven, Staunton, Virginia

Analysis and Discussion:
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Plot Summary
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Much Ado About Nothing
Plot Summary
Live Performances: Shakespeare In-The-Ruins

Analysis and Discussion:
Men Were Deceivers Ever
And Be You Blithe and Bonny
Hey Nonny, Nonny

Film Adaptations (using Shakespeare’s language):
Sigh No More, Ladies
BBC = Gets the Job Done
Northern Exposure
Law & Order – Keystone Kops Style

Film Adaptations (inspired by play):
The Local News

Othello
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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Richard II
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Richard III
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Romeo and Juliet
Plot Summary
Live Performances:
Not Your Grandma’s Shakespeare!
Faction of Fools

Analysis and Discussion:
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Fun in the Pun
Mercutio, the Messenger
Loose Ends

Film Adaptations (using Shakespeare’s language):
What is a Youth?
The Last Picture Show
Romeo and Juliet, Abridged… and Animated!
“Romeo! Quick! Poison Yourself!”
BBC = Boring, Banal, Choppy

Film Adaptations (inspired by play):
Shakespeare in Love
My Shakespeare
Well, there IS a balcony scene…
GOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!
Romeo and Juliet for Preschoolers
Wherefore Art Thou Gnomeo?
West Side Story Meets Flashdance Meets the Sopranos

Film Adaptations (musical/ballet):
The Beauty of Ballet
Just Play it Cool, Boy
Nureyev and Fonteyn
Taking Two for the Team

The Taming of the Shrew
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Live Performances:
Forces of Nature
It’s Too Darn Hot

Analysis and Discussion:
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The Tempest
Plot Summary
Live Performances: WILLPOWER!

Analysis and Discussion:
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Shakespeare Behind Bars

Timon of Athens
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Titus Andronicus
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Troilus and Cressida
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Twelfth Night
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Plot Summary
Live Performances: Almost Heaven, Staunton, Virginia

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Film Adaptations (using Shakespeare’s language):
Renaissance Rom-Com

Film Adaptations (inspired by play):

The Two Noble Kinsmen
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The Winter’s Tale
Plot Summary
Live Performances:
A Luminous Winter’s Tale
Almost Heaven, McLean, Virginia
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