Fifty of the films retain Shakespeares language among them Oliviers Henry V and Hamlet and Welless Othello. Alongside these are forty genre adaptations with mod... » 

Fifty of the films retain Shakespeares language among them Oliviers Henry V and Hamlet and Welless Othello. Alongside these are forty genre adaptations with modern dialogue and reimagined characters Macbeth as a gangster in Maqbool Othello as a jazz pianist in All Night Long. Rosenthal Assesses Shakespeare melodramas musicals and teen comedies and twentyfive foreignlanguage titles including Kurosawas Ran and adaptations set in Madagascar and Venezuela. «