Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger in "10 Things I Hate About You."Buena Vista "Anyone but You" is based on the Shakespeare play "Much ...

In New Orleans, the start of the Mardi Gras or carnival season begins with Twelfth Night, the same name that is given to one of Shakespeare’s most festive plays.

A film adaptation of a William Shakespeare play has been hailed as a "masterpiece" and stars Kate Winslet and Kenneth Branagh ...

There have been countless big-screen adaptations of William Shakespeare's work. Below, Insider ranks the best modern Shakespeare adaptations in ascending order. The list includes 2006's "She's the Man ...

On the rare occasion that William Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” comes up in conversation, most people think of some sort of adaptation, whether it’s an awkward effort by a high-school ...

Before the record-breaking romantic comedy Anyone But You was unknowingly making audiences fall in love with Shakespeare, there were tons of other modern retellings of the famous playwright’s stories.

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles at swing in a scene from the film "10 Things I Hate About You," 1999. "All the world's a stage" and sometimes a film set. Whether you frequent Shakespeare Festivals or ...

After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and grave ...

The beloved William Shakespeare film adaptation starring Kate Winslet and Kenneth Branagh has received rave reviews ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2026 issue. In September, two new Shakespeare adaptations used the Bard’s canonical plays as jumping-off points to bring stories infused with ...