Top Five Plays or Movies that about Shakespeare but Not Adaptations of his Plays

by Ernie on 10/02/10 at 9:27 am

5. Elizabeth Rex: Queen Elizabeth spends a few hours talking to a man in Shakespeare’s acting troupe who specializes in playing women. In other words:a man who plays women teaches a woman who acts like a man how to be a woman on the eve of the execution of the man she loves (Essex) for treason. And vice versa.

4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: We can’t possibly explain. Just see it.

3. Equivocation: a play about Shakespeare and politics.

2. Shakespeare in Love: Turns out Shakespeare had some until-now unknown inspirations for Romeo and Juliet (and Twelfth Night, and Banquo’s ghost, and a bunch of other things, too. Also it was his fault that Marlow was killed)..