Shakespeare Based Plays

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Shakespeare Based Plays

The Woman’s Prize (1647)- John Fletcher

The Law Against Lovers (1662)- Sir William Davenant

The Mock Tempest (1674)- Thomas Duffet

The History and Fall of Caius Marius (1680)- Thomas Otway

The History of King Lear (1681)- Nahum Tate

David Garrick Romeo and Juliet (1748)- David Garrick

Catherine and Petruchio (1754) – David Garrick

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1874) – W.S. Gilbert

Macbeth Skit (1916)- George Bernard Shaw

Romanoff and Juliet (1956)- Peter Ustinov

MacBird! (1967) –Barbara Garson

Lear (1971) –Edward Bond

15-Minute Hamlet (1976)-Tom Stoppard

Hamletmachine (1977)- Heiner Muller

Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (1979)- Tom Stoppard

The Skinhead Hamlet (1981) – Richard Curtis

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (1987) –Adam Long, Jess Winfield, Daniel Singer

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1988)- Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fortinbras (1991)- Lee Blessing

I Hate Hamlet (1991) – Paul Rudnick

MacHomer (1995)- Rick Miller

Harlem Duet (1997) – Djanet Sears

After Juliet (1999)- Sharman Macdonald

Gertrude – The Cry (2002)- Howard Barker

Opheliamachine (2002)- Magda Romanska

I’ll Be the Devil (2008)- Leo Butler

Dunsinane (2010) – David Greig

People’s Romeo (2010)- Mukul Ahmed

Desdemona (2012)- Toni Morrison

Hamnet (2017) – Dead Centre

The Book of Will (2018) – Lauren Gunderson

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