11 of the Best & Worst Shakespearean Big Screen Adaptations

Which of the famous playwright's works have found box-office and critical glory — and which didn't?

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1999). Another star-studded cast made up director Michael Hoffman's version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but the members seemed a little mismatched. As New York Times critic Janet Maslin put it, "…Calista Flockhart, hardly fits into the same film with David Strathairn's reserved Duke Theseus, or with Rupert Everett as a slinky Oberon." Reviews were mixed but lent toward positive.

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