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  1. Freddy Versus Hamlet (1916 Film)

    Director
    Frank Currier

    Fiction film comedy. Wiggins takes Mabel to the theatre, where they snub Freddy. Mabel flirts with the actor playing Hamlet and she joins him for a soda at the drug store. Wiggins and the actor are both...

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  2. Cardinal Wolsey (1912 Film)

    Director
    J. Stuart Blackton; Lawrence Trimble

    Fiction short depicting the historic disagreement between Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey concerning the king’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. McKernan & Terris (op cit) note "the debt to Shakespeare is...

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  3. As You Like It (1912 Film)

    Director
    Charles Kent

    As You Like it directed by Charles Kent and adapted by Margaret Birch. Rose Coghlan is Rosalind.

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  4. Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912 Film)

    Director
    Lawrence Trimble

    Fiction film setting Romeo and Juliet as a story of North American tribes where the Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. Perhaps the first feature film to appropriate a Shakespeare story. The Vitagraph...

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  5. Twelfth Night (1910 Film)

    Director
    Charles Kent

    Abbreviated version of the play directed by Charles Kent with Florence Turner as Viola and Charles Kent as Malvolio.

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  6. King Lear (1909 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous
    Producer
    J. Stuart Blackton

    Abbreviated version of the play but yet still straining to incorporate the Edgar subplot, the rejection of Cordelia, Lear’s rejection of Goneril and Regan, the blinding of Gloucester (off stage), the...

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  7. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1909 Film)

    Director
    J. Stuart Blackton; Charles Kent

    Abbreviated version of the play closely following the original with the exception of a new character, Penelope. It is she who quarrels with Titania and tells Puck to bewitch Titania.

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  8. King Lear (1909 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous

    Fiction film with William V. Ranous directing and taking the title role.

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  9. Julius Caesar (1908 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous
    Producer
    J. Stuart Blackton

    Abbreviated version of the play. At the Capitol Julius Caesar leaves with Mark Antony while Caesar is seen plotting with another man. In the arena Antony offers Caesar the crown three times. Cassius...

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  10. Antony and Cleopatra (1908 Film)

    Director
    Charles Kent

    Antony and Cleopatra directed by Charles Kent with Betty Kent (the director’s wife) as Cleopatra. The film was shot entirely in the studio, Vitagraph’s promotion describing the film as a ‘stupendous...

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