An excellent article. It gives us evidence as to why Shakespeare is one of the most influential authors of literature and other forms of art and culture. What did Shakespeare grasp that has enabled him to survive the centuries with such force? What aspects of our souls?
The works you comment on, @honeydue, give us some clues about it. All those things that torment us in a fundamental way: love, sex, blood, death; but also humor.
From the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann I loved, above all else, language. Keeping the original parliaments was a great success: Shakespeare's soul is also his language.
Now, your post has awakened in me an enormous curiosity to see other adaptations.
I cannot fail to say that, being sincere, and although your article is very good, Sir Ian McKellen's indescribably beautiful, vulnerable and very mischievous smile in the photograph you place stole my heart completely and definitively.
Thans, @honeydue.