Adaptations of Shakespeare's Plays

More Well Known Adaptations

Because of how much people love Shakespeare's plays, those stories have been made into well known adaptations and reimaginations. Below are just some of the few that are in the world.

Movies

The Taming of the Shrew

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Romeo and Juliet

Musicals

The Taming of the Shrew

Romeo and Juliet

Hamlet

Artwork

Hamlet

Ophelia (1851) - Sir John Everett Millais

Ophelia, Hamlet's lover, drowns herself after being driven mad by her father's death. Many of the flowers are meant to have a symbolic significance: Poppies for death, Violets for chastity and faithfulness, etc.

Richard III

David Garrett as Richard III (1745) - William Hogarth

Garrett was an actor who portrayed Richard III on stage, and this painting shows when Richard III awakens from a nightmare where the ghosts of his slain enemies haunt him.

Macbeth

 

The Three Witches (1783) - Johann Heinrich Fussli

The Three Witches dramatically point to something, most likely one of the apparitions that The Witches summon before Macbeth.

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