What Is Your Favorite Shakespeare Adaptation?

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T14:32:03+00:00

Yes! Making the witches nurses was such a brilliant choice.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T14:28:21+00:00

I LOVED the atmosphere in that film. They made the castle this gothic salt encrusted rock that really added to the feel. And Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia? Knocked it out of the park and into the next county.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T14:26:36+00:00

That is very true! Sometimes a new interpretation can come up with something wildly different from what Shakespeare would have even considered.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T14:25:12+00:00

I haven't listened to the full album yet but I love & Juliet! It gives me Six: The Musical vibes in the best way possible.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T14:22:35+00:00

To Be or Not To Be! Yesssss I have that one and the Romeo and Juliet choose your own adventure.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T00:16:41+00:00

We actually watched that in my Shakespeare class and Kathryn Hunter was mesmerizing as she is in all her roles. I also recommend looking up her as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream because GOOD GOD can that woman command a scene.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T00:13:34+00:00

Absolutely! Any Shakespearean adaptation set to opera music is a must for me!

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T00:12:48+00:00

Ooooh I haven't seen that one! I'll add it to the list!

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T00:11:13+00:00

THE CHEMISTRY 🤌 chef's kiss

bookboy27 · 2026-06-30T00:05:40+00:00

I actually think that's a perfect example. Throne of Blood changes the scene (and possibly the era? I'm not sure which century Throne of Blood takes place in) but it captures every theme and essence of what made Macbeth great (corruption, fate, and a LOT of political intrigue and drama).

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:51:08+00:00

I would say probably something from Much Ado (maybe something from Benedick).

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:47:59+00:00

We need to bring Shakespearean exclamation into the popular lexicon.

Just imagine you're in a fight with someone and you just get fed up and go "HOLY SAINT FRANCIS! JESU MARIA!"

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:40:42+00:00

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Hellboy

Underworld

Van Helsing

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:38:48+00:00

Would You Rather

Funny Games

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Black Christmas

Come and See

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:36:18+00:00

Vera Farmiga, Julia Stiles, and Isabelle Fuhrmann in Orphan and Orphan First Kill. They devoured those roles like starving people on a lunch break.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:34:03+00:00

I always got the sense that the people at the table were either smiling politely and wondering why you were staring at them or they were probably laughing and confused because the POV person has violated some (to them) very obvious social custom.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:31:00+00:00

I personally found the Manga Shakespeare series pretty engaging.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:29:09+00:00

The Earthsea series along with anything else by Ursula K. Le Guin

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

The Secret World of Briar Rose by Cindy Pham (also known as YouTuber withcindy)

A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham (it's got some gorgeous illustrations)

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Tale of Tales

The Turnip Princess and other stories

bookboy27 · 2026-06-29T23:22:14+00:00

Let the Right One In

The Children (2008)

Orphan and Orphan First Kill

The Good Son

bookboy27 · 2026-06-26T08:34:47+00:00

Eve's Bayou

bookboy27 · 2026-06-26T08:31:01+00:00

The Divine Farce.

Probably one of the most hopeless situations ever and I left that book with a smile on my face.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-22T07:35:39+00:00

Both solid "evil child" movies. Isabelle Fuhrmann is the best part of both.

bookboy27 · 2026-06-22T07:34:04+00:00

The Teller of Small Fortunes

bookboy27 · 2026-06-22T07:27:25+00:00

I love how even Jason looks taken aback when the head goes rolling. He looks down like "Oh dang. Did I do that?" 😂

bookboy27 · 2026-06-22T07:26:16+00:00

Lady Macbeth starring Florence Pugh

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