Elizabethan Theater

A list of my favorite films based on the works of William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists.

	DrPhibes's Rating	My Rating
1	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935, Unrated)
2	Romeo and Juliet (1936, Unrated)
3	To Be or Not to Be (1942, PG)
4	Henry V (The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1946, Unrated)
5	Hamlet (1948, Unrated)
6	Macbeth (1948, Unrated)
7	The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Othello) (1952, Unrated)
8	William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1953, Unrated)
9	Richard III (1956, Unrated)
10	Forbidden Planet (1956, G)
11	Kumonosu Jô (Throne of Blood) (Macbeth) (1957, Unrated)
12	West Side Story (1961, Unrated)
13	Gamlet (Hamlet) (1964, PG-13)
14	Othello (1965, Unrated)
15	The Taming of the Shrew (1967, Unrated)
16	Doctor Faustus (1968, Unrated)
17	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968, Unrated)
18	Romeo and Juliet (1968, PG)
19	Hamlet (1969, G)
20	The Tragedy of Macbeth (Macbeth) (1971, R)
21	Theater of Blood (Theatre of Blood) (Much Ado About Murder) (1973, R)
22	The Tempest (1980, R)
23	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982, PG)
24	Tempest (1982, PG)
25	To Be or Not to Be (1983, PG)
26	King Lear (1983, Unrated)
27	Ran (1985, R)
28	Otello (Othello) (1986, Unrated)
29	Henry V (1989, PG-13)
30	Hamlet (1990, PG)
31	Prospero's Books (1991, R)
32	Edward II (1992, R)
33	Much Ado About Nothing (1993, PG-13)
34	The Lion King (1994, G)
35	Othello (1995, R)
36	Richard III (1995, R)
37	Hamlet (1996, PG-13)
38	Romeo + Juliet (1996, PG-13)
39	Tromeo and Juliet (1997, R)
40	Shakespeare in Love (1998, R)
41	A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999, PG-13)
42	Titus (1999, R)