Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston
Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.
Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
This is not a defensible legal opinion but NDAs shouldn't apply to the besties
Stormy weather over the wheat field - Philipp Klinger @ 2photo.ru
I think that the Hamilton musical is objectively the funniest thing that could happen to that man’s memory. Imagine dying of a gunshot wound infection in 1804 and learning from the afterlife that tweenage girls in 2017 are drawing thousands upon thousands of images of you making out with your fellow congressmen because someone wrote a 2-hour rap opera about you. I like to imagine that Hamilton found a monkey’s paw and wished to leave a legacy, and this is what it did to him.
you don’t control who lives who dies who tells your story
i hate the expectation that i have to plan for the future. has anyone ever considered im scared
sometimes the knowledge you gain on twitter is both blessed and cursed
also his likes are sending me:
the key to my childhood home stays ON during sex
the show good omens doesn't queerbait!! it queermurders. the queer murdered in question is me
sorry i didn’t answer your texts. a dove wept and i had to listen
I'm tired, as a queer person, of being happy with scraps. I can count on one hand the number of queer romcoms I know, and that sucks. Queer people deserve better. We deserve as many different types of stories and movies as straight people, and that includes trash. But, at the same time, I'm tired of getting so little, that I'm obligated to like everything that's queer.
I didn't like the RWRB movie. It was fun, sure, and the chemistry between the leads was there. If it wasn't based on a book, then it would be a fine movie, even one I liked. But it is based on a book, and it's a bad adaptation. They had all the big scenes, but none of the connective tissue, none of the context that made those scenes matter. It failed thematically.
They cut June—a queer woman trying to be a journalist, to have her own opinions, when the world says she can’t. They cut the mixed race polyamory, the fact that Alex and Henry are surrounded by other queer people, and how meaningful that is for them. The only other explicitly queer person in the movie is Miguel. There's no sense of queer community in this film.
They cut the biting critique of the monarchy and the royal family to a couple of scenes. They cut Henry refusing his royal inheritance, donating it all to charities and living off what his father left him. They cut the pain of Henry’s grief over his father and the impact of Catherine’s absence on her children--how Henry closed himself off, Bea's addiction, and how Phillip became warped and abusive.
They cut the commentary on identity. Alex’s struggles with his different identities as queer, as Mexican, as Texan, and as American are basically nonexistent. There’s nothing for him to grapple with because he already knows himself. There's no "fire under his ass for no good goddamn reason"--he isn't desperate to prove himself. There's no WASP-y Hunter for him to compare himself to, to be representative of white liberal America.
They really cut the commentary on American politics. They cut Rafael Luna—an openly gay senator who was homeless as a teen, who is deeply critical of the system. They cut down Richards role. Richards is literally the conservative political machine personified--he preys on people like Rafael and Alex: young, queer, nonwhite. He chews them up and spits them out, attempts to disenfranchise and silence them.
They cut Richards outing them. Instead, Henry and Alex are outed by Miguel, some random reporter, who is also queer and latino? Alex literally says in the book, "straight people always want the homophobic bastards to be closet cases so they can wash their hands of it" and that's exactly what the movie did.
The book was never just a romance novel. It was always political commentary and sharp critique wrapped up and hidden inside a shell of fluff; a direct response to the 2016 election. The movie stripped all the depth, hollowed out the inner commentary, and left an empty shell of a story. It's a bad adaptation because it failed to convey the themes of the original source material. Yes, there should be more fluffy pointless queer romcoms, just not this one.
Not to be dramatic but the fact that Geraldine Viswanathan and Daniel Radcliffe's characters are in love every season of Miracle Workers really does something good for my soul.
Whats that one quote about loving you in every timeline? Whatever its them and I'm obsessed with it
Aziraphale: Nothing lasts forever. Change is inedible.
Crowley, holding back tears: Don’t….Don’t you mean it’s inevitable?
Aziraphale, who has been using this entire conversation as a setup for the world’s worst magic trick: *spits out coins* no I do not.
the worst part of the consumer economy is people thinking that watching or not watching movies counts as activism
