Shakespeare in the movies: from the silent era to Shakespeare in love

An auspicious opening : The taming of the shrew

The winter of our discontent : King Richard III

Star-crossed lovers : Romeo and Juliet

A fairy tale for grown-ups : A midsummer night's dream

The hollow crown : Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V

Sophisticated comedy : Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night

A tide in men's lives : Julius Caesar

I know not seems : Hamlet

The green-eyed monster : Othello, the Moor of Venice

Fatal vision : Macbeth

A woman of infinite variety : Antony and Cleopatra

Sans everything : King Lear

You can't go home again : The winter's tale and The tempest

Playing Shakespeare

As we go to press.