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?

"West Side Story" (1961). Shakespeare never wrote a musical, but Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim added their own touch to the playwright's work with an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" that set the action in 1950s New York among rival gangs. The movie won 10 Oscars, including best picture, and is considered one of the greatest American films ever made.

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