Year | Read | Month | Play | Genre | Watch | BE_RecMovie |
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2022 | ✔️ | January | As You Like It | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the stage version starring Helen Mirren as Rosalind and filmed by the BBC in 1978 |
2022 | ✔️ | February | The Merchant of Venice | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the 2004 version starring Al Pacino, Ralph Fiennes, and Jeremy Irons. Pacino plays Shylock supremely well |
2022 | ✔️ | March | Henry V | History | ✔️ | Watch the 1989 Kenneth Branagh version. I love how he conceptualised the Battle of Agincourt. This is one of those few films that has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. |
2022 | ✔️ | April | Twelfth Night | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the 1996 Trevor Nunn version starring Helena Bonham Carter and Richard E. Grant. |
2022 | ✔️ | May | Henry VI Part 1 | History | ✔️ | Watch tthe 2016 adaptation part of The Hollow Crown Series. |
2022 | ✔️ | June | All’s Well That Ends Well | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the 1981 version from the BBC collection. |
2022 | ✔️ | June | The Rape of Lucrece | Narrative poem | ✔️ | No movie reccomendation from BE |
2022 | ✔️ | July | Henry VI Part 2 | History | ✔️ | Watch the 2016 adaptation part of The Hollow Crown. |
2022 | ✔️ | August | The Winter’s Tale | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch Branagh’s filming of his stage adaptation in 2015 with Judi Dench. |
2022 | ✔️ | September | Love’s Labour Lost | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the Kenneth Branagh adaptation, with the movie from 2000 feeling like a classic 1930s musical. |
2022 | ✔️ | October | Henry VI Part 3 | History | ✔️ | Watch the 2016 adaptation part of The Hollow Crown. |
2022 | ✔️ | November | Measure for Measure | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the 1979 BBC version. |
2022 | ✔️ | December | Richard III | History | ✔️ | Watch the 1955 Laurence Olivier version. His monologue, the famous “Now is the winter of our discontent”, is unparalleled. |