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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. King Lear (1909 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous

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

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  4. Macbeth (1908 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous

    Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...

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  5. Richard III (1908 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous

    Fiction film. Richard III with William V. Ranous directing himself in the title role.

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  6. Merchant of Venice, The (1908 Film)

    A version of The Merchant of Venice. Ball surmises that Shylock may have been played by William V. Ranous who probably directed. The Moving Picture World (January 9 1909) noted ‘An ambitious film. The...

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