Good post - not enough people 'know' shakespeare..

I saw Hamlet at the globe theater in London, back in the day - mulled wine and everything!
A fantastic experience, but I'm glad I watched a film/read the play to refresh myself, before I went.

Once you 'get' shakespear, you see shades of him in every modern film, nearly..

( I much prefer, period rather than contemporary, productions,myself - but I'm a history whore anyway, so it fits....)