To celebrate the release of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing on DVD and a new version of Romeo and Juliet coming our way, today at I’m With Geek, we’re looking at some of cinema’s great adaptations of the Bard. From Kenneth Branagh’s true-to-the-text renditions of pretty much every Shakespeare play going, to musical re-imaginings, to Disney animation, Shakespeare’s work continues to thrill audiences in some often-unlikely ways. Here are a few of the best.
NOTE: I would have liked to have included Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus, but I still haven’t seen it. I know, I’m awful.