SHAKESPEARE SPINOFFS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY ARANGED BY SOURCE PLAY

Originally compiled by Lawrence Schimel, Yale University 7/30/90
Updated by Hardy M. Cook, 12/03/92; 12/16/93; 2/11/94; 6/7/96; 8/12/96;
1/3/97
Updated by Christine Mack Gordon, 2/3/98

Antony and Cleopatra:

John Dryden. _All for Love_. Drama.
_Carry on Cleo_. Dir. Gerald Thomas. 1964. Film. Also Julius Caesar.

Comedy of Errors:

_Big Business_. Dir. Jim Abrahams. 1988. Film.
_The Boys from Syracuse_. Dir. A. Edward Sutherland. 1940. Film
(musical).
_Our Relations_. Dir. Harry Lachman. 1936. Film


Cymbeline:

Innes. _Cymbeline Refinished_. Drama.


Hamlet:

_The Bad Sleep Well_. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. 1960. Film.
Ron Blair, Michael Boddy, Marcus Cooney (book), Graham Bond and Rory
O'Donohue
(lyrics and music). _Hamlet on Ice_. 1971, Nimrod Street Theatre
Company,
Sydney, unpublished. Pantomime.
Lee Blessing. _Fortinbras_. 1992. Drama.
Richard Brautigan. "The Castle of the Cormorants." 1970. Poem.
Richard Brautigan. "The Rape of Ophelia."1970. Poem.
T. S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."Poem.
_The Elsinore Appeal_. Mock trial transcript.
_Gilligan's Island_ episode. Televison.
_Hello, Hamlet!_ Musical comedy. Rice University.
_Hamlet lukemaailmassa_. (English title[s] _Hamlet Goes Business_ and
_Hamlet
Gets Business_) Dir. Aki Kaurismaki. 1987. Finnish film.
Innes. _Hamlet, Revenge_.
Elias Olan James. _Thieves of Mercy_. Verse.
_L.A. Story_. Dir. Mick Jackson. 1991. Film.
Adam McNaughton. "The Three-Minute HAMLET."Song.
_A Midwinter's Tale_ (UK title: _In the Deep Midwinter_). Dir. Kenneth
Branagh.
1995. Film.
Heiner Muller. _Hamlet Machine and Other Texts for the Stage_. 1984.
Drama.
_Ophelia_. Dir. Claude Chabrol. 1962. Film.
_The Rest is Silence_. Dir. Helmut Kautner. 1960. Film.
Paul Rudnick. _I Hate Hamlet_. Drama.
Hunter Steele. _Lord Hamlet's Castle_. 1987. Novel.
_Strange Brew_. Dir. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. 1983. Film.
Tom Stoppard. _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead_. Drama.
Tom Stoppard. _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead_. 1991. Screenplay.
Tom Stoppard. _Dogg's Hamlet_. Drama.
Ambroise Thomas. _Hamlet_. Opera. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel
Carre.
1868.
John Cargill Thompson. _Hamlet II: Prince of Jutland._ 1984/1995.
Monologue.
_To Be or Not To Be_. Dir. Mel Brooks. 1983. Remake of 1942 version.
Film.
_To Be Or Not To Be_. Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. 1942. Film.
Paula Vogel. _Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief_. Drama.
John Wain. "Feng."1975. Poem.


The Henriad:

Kenneth Branagh. _Henry V_. Screen adaptation. London: Chatto & Windus,
1989.
NY: Norton, 1997.
_Chimes at Midnight_.(Alternative title: _Falstaff_) Dir. Orson Welles.
1966.
Film (Also MWW)
Phoebe Fenwick Gaye. _Good Sir John_. London: M. Secker, 1930. Fiction.
William Kenrick. _Falstaff's Wedding_. 1795. Drama?
_My Own Private Idaho_. Dir. Gus Van Sant. 1990. Film.
Robert Nye. _Falstaff_. Hamish Hamilton, 1976; Penguin Books 1983.
Fiction.
Verdi. _Falstaff_. Opera (Also MWW)


Henry VI:

_Show of Shows_. Dir. John Adolfi. 1929. Film.


Julius Caesar:

George Bernard Shaw. _Caesar and Cleopatra_. Drama.
_Carry on Cleo_. Dir. Gerald Thomas. 1964. Film. (Also Antony and
Cleopatra)
_An Honourable Murder_. Dir. Geofrey Grayson. 1960. Film.


King Lear:

Barker. _Seven Lears_.
Samuel Beckett,. _Endgame_. Drama.
_The Big Show_. Dir. James Clark. 1961. Film.
Edward Bond. _Lear_.  Drama.
_Broken Lance_. Dir. Edward Dmytryk. 1954. Film.
Geoffry Brown. _Forrest: The Life and Times of the First American Star,
Including the Notorious Riot at Astor Place_. 1990. Drama.
Elaine Feinstein and The Women's Theatre Group. _Lear's Daughters._
1987. Drama.
_House of Strangers_. Dir. Joseph Mankiewicz. 1949. Film.
John Keats. "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Again."Verse.
_Ran_. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. Film.
Margaret Laurence. _The Stone Angel_. Fiction.
Jane Smiley. _A Thousand Acres_. Fiction.
Nahum Tate. _The History of King Lear_. Drama.


Macbeth:

Maurice Baring. _Lady Macbeth's Trouble_. Fiction.
Jean Binnie. _Lady Macbeth_. Drama.
Graham Bond and Jim Burnett (book), Graham Bond (music). _Boy's Own
Macbeth_.1979. Pub.: Currency Press (1980). Comic musical play.
Howard Brenton. _13th Night_. 1983. NB: this isn't a 12Night spinoff but
a play
which uses Macbeth throughout as its structuring narrative.
Stephen Briggs. _Wyrd Sisters_. Based on the novel by Terry Pratchett.
Drama.
Leslie Epstein. _King of the Jews_. Fiction.
Barbara Garson. _Macbird_. Grove Press, 1966. Drama.
Eugene Ionesco. _Macbett_. Drama.
_Joe Macbeth_. Dir. Ken Hughes. 1955. Film.
Marvin Kaye. _Bullets for Macbeth_. Toronto: Dutton, 1976. Detective
novel.
_Men of Respect_. Dir. William Reilly. 1991. Film.
Terry Pratchett. _Wyrd Sisters_ . Fiction.
_Scenes from Macbeth_. Dir. Chris Philpott.  1989. Film. A short
Canadian film
(42 minutes), written, produced, and directed by Chris Philpott. A
version (at
leastly partly. parody) of _Macbeth_ done in a business setting in
Toronto; it
features an odd mixture of Shakespearean dialogue and modern dialogue.
Some
especially nice touches are Birnham Wood's coming to Dunsinane being
done as a
pickup truck full of Christmas trees (from which Macbeth is killed in a
drive-by shooting); "double, double, toil and trouble"done as a rap
number by
street kids; the "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"speech being done
three
times in a row in entirely different styles, including standup comedy;
and the
wyrd sisters as bag ladies.  ]A colleague and I delivered a paper on
this film
at Shakespeare sessions of the American Popular Culture Association a
couple of
years ago. (Information from Mike Richardson, Lakehead University,
Ontario.
(jrichard@mist.lakeheadu.ca)
George Bernard Shaw. _The Macbeth Skit_. Drama.
James Thurber. "The MACBETH Murder Mystery." Fiction.
Tom Stoppard. _Cahoot's Macbeth_. Drama.
John Cargill Thompson. _Macbeth Speaks_. 1991. Monologue.
_Throne of Blood_. Dir. Akira Kurosawa,1957. Film.
Verdi. _Macbeth_. Opera.

Measure for Measure:

Howard Brenton. _Measure for Measure: a comedy, after Shakespeare_.
1972.


The Merchant of Venice:

Sir John Greer Ervine. _The Lady of Belmont_. Macmillan, 1924. Drama.
Robert Farquhar. _Portia Pulls a Pinch Play_. 1930. Drama.
Faye Kellerman. _The Quality of Mercy_. Ballantine Books, 1989. Fiction.
Erica Jong. _Serenissima_. Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Fiction.
Ludwig Lewisohn. _The Last Days of Shylock_. 1931. Fiction.
Fiona Pitt-Kethly. _Shylock_. Verse.
Arnold Wesker. _The Merchant_ (also published/produced as _Shylock_).
1976.
Drama.


The Merry Wives of Windsor:

_Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight_. Dir. Orson Welles.1966. Film (Also H4,
H5)
Verdi. _Falstaff_. Opera. (Also H4, H5)


A Midsummer Night's Dream:

Paul Anderson,. _A Midsummer Tempest_. Fiction.
Pete Brooks. _If We Shadows_. Drama.
L. Sprauge de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. _Land of Unreason_. Fiction.
Raymond E. Feist. _Fairy Tale_. Fiction. (See also _The Tempest_)
Gaiman, Neil. _Sandman_ #19 (also reprinted in the collection _Dream
Country_).
Deals with _A Midsummer Night's Dream_. Comic.
_A Midsummer Night's Bondage_. 1993. Erotic film.
Keith Robinson, Geoffrey Rush and Tony Taylor. _The Popular
Mechanicals_. 1987.
Belvoir Street Theatre Company, Sydney, unpublished. Drama.
Keith Robinson, Geoffrey Rush and Tony Taylor. _Pop Mex 2_ (a sequel!).
1992.
Belvoir Street Theatre Company, Sydney, unpublished. Drama.


Much Ado About Nothing

Kenneth Branagh. _Much Ado About Nothing_. Screenplay, introduction, and
notes.
New York & London: Norton, 1993.
Christine Mack Gordon. "Brave Punishments."In _Anthology of the Writers
of
Minnesota 1996_. Madison: Crowbar Press, 1995.

Othello:

_All Night Long_. Dir. Basil Dearden. 1962. Film.
_Anna's Sin_. Dir. Camillo Mastrocinque. 1953. Film.
John Peale Bishop. _Act of Darkness_. 1936. Fiction
_Carnival_. Dir. Herbert Wilcox. 1931. Film
_Catch My Soul_. (Alternative title: _Santa Fe Satan_) Dir. Patrick
McGoohan.
1974. Film.
Machado de Assis. _Dom Casmurro_. Fiction.
_A Double Life_. Dir. George Cukor. 1947. Film.
John Fowles. _The Magus_. Fiction.
John Gardner. _Every Night's a Bullfight_. Fiction.
Nadine Gordimer. _My Son's Story_. Fiction
Aldous Huxley. The "feelie"_Three Weeks in a Helicopter_ in _Brave New
World_.
Fiction.
_Internal Affairs_. Dir. Mike Figgis. 1990. Film
C. Bernard Jackson. _Iago_. Drama. Produced in the L.A. Theatre Center,
1996.
Caleen Sinnette Jennings. _Playing Juliet/Casting Othello_. Drama.
Produced by
Source Theatre and the Folger Shakespeare Library at the Folger
Elizabethan
Stage. January 1998.
_Jubal_. Dir. Delmar Davis.1956. Film.
Ann Marie MacDonald_. Goodnight Desdemona (Goodmorning Juliet)_. Drama.
Charles Marowitz. _An Othello_. In _Open Space Plays_. Harmondsworth:
Penguin,
1974. Drama.
Allan Massie. "Ossie: a Dumb Black Ox."In _Shakespeare Stories_, ed.
Giles
Gordon. 1982. Fiction
_Men are not Gods_ Dir. Walter Reisch. 1936. Film.
Salman Rushdie. _The Satanic Verses_. Fiction.
George Bernard Shaw. _Heartbreak House_. Drama.
Verdi. _Otello_. Opera.
_The Playboys_. Dir. Gillies MacKinnon. 1992. Film.

Richard II:

Eugene Ionesco. _Exit the King_. Drama.


Richard III:

Sharon Kay Penman. _The Sunne in Splendour._ Penguin, 1982. Historical
fiction.
Antony Sher. _The Year of the King_. Memoir.
Josephine Tey. _The Daughter of Time_, Mystery novel.
_Tower of London_. Dir. Roger Corman. 1962. Film.
_Tower of London_ Dir. Rowland Lee. 1939. Film.


Romeo and Juliet:

Maxwell Anderson. _Winterset_. 1935. Drama.
Berlioz. _Romeo et Juliette_. Symphonic poem.
_Capuletta: or Romeo and Juliet Restored_, an "operatic burlesque"in
_The Mimic
Stage_. 1869.
_Carry on Teacher_. Dir. Gerald Thomas. 1959. Film.
Elvis Costello. _The Juliet Letters_. Album.
John Gardner. _Every Night a Bullfight_. Fiction.
_The Hollywood Review_. Sequence from _Romeo and Juliet_ with Lionel
Barrymore.
1929. Film.
_Panic Button_ Dir. George Sherman. 1964. Film.
Michael Redmond and Nola York. _Wild Wild Women_. Musical.
_Romanoff and Juliet_. Dir. Peter Ustinov. 1961. Film.
_Romeo and Julian_. 1993. A "gay romantic musical"based on Romeo and
Juliet.
Won three awards from AVN in 1994.
_Romeo and Juliet_. Dir. Miguel Delgado. 1944. Film.
_The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet_ Dir. A.P. Stootsberry. 1968.
Film.
_Shakespeare's R & J_. Adapted and directed by Joe Calarco. John
Houseman Studio
Theater, NY, January 1998. An adaptation of the play with a frame set in
a boys
school. The entire play is done by four male actors. Reviewed in the NY
Times
1/23/98.
_Sweet Light in a Dark Room_. Dir. Jiri Weiss. 1960. Film.
John Cargill Thompson. _Romeo and Juliet: Happily Never After_. 1995.
Short
play.
_Tromeo and Juliet_. Dir. James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman. 1995. Film.
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. _West Side Story_. 1961. Drama (Musical)
Unknown Italian director. A "cat"version of the story. Film.


The Sonnets:

_The Angelic Conversation_. Dir. Derek Jarman. 1980. Film.
Stephanie Cowell. _The Players: a novel of the Young Shakespeare_.
Norton, 1997;
German: Piper Verlag, 1999. Fiction.
_Love's Fire_. Fresh numbers by seven American playwrights: Eric
Bogosian,
_Bitter Sauce_ (sonnet 118); William Finn, _Painting, a song_ (sonnet
102); John
Guare, _The General of Hot Desire, an Essay_ (sonnets 153 and 154); Tony
Kushner,_Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmertzen Nicht Verloren Seine, or
Ambivalence_ (sonnet 75) Marsha Norman, _140_ (sonnet 140); Ntozake
Shange,
_Hydraulics Phat Like Mean_ (sonnet 128); and Wendy Wasserstein,
_Waiting for
Philip Glass_ (sonnet 94). Short plays based on the sonnets. Produced by
The
Acting Company at the Guthrie Lab, Minneapolis, January 1998 (begins a
national
tour).
Cothburn O'Neil. _The Dark Lady_. Crown 1954. Fiction.
George Bernard Shaw. _The Dark Lady of the Sonnets_. Drama.


The Taming of The Shrew:

John Fletcher. _The Woman's Cries, or The Tamer Tamed_. Drama.
George Sidney. _Kiss Me Kate_. 1953. Drama (Musical).
_Moonlighting_ episode. Television.
_The Taming of the Screw_. Dir. Jim Powers. 1997. Erotic film



The Tempest:

W. H. Auden. _The Sea and the Mirror_. Verse.
Beresford-Howe. _Prospero's Daughter_.
Robert Browning. _Caliban upon Setebos_. Verse.
Aime Cesaire. _A Tempest_. Drama.
Dryden/Davenant. _The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island_. Drama.
Philip Dunne. _Prince of Players_. 1955. Film.
Raymond E. Feist. _Fairy Tale_.  Fiction. (See also A Midsummer Night's
Dream)
_Forbidden Planet_. Dir. Fred Wilcox. 1956. Film.
John Fowles. _The Magus_. Fiction.
Gaiman, Neil. _The Tempest_. (It is, interestingly enough, the final
issue of
the _Sandman_ series and Gaiman's farewell to his readers.) Comic.
Lee Hoiby (music) and Mark Shulgasser (libretto). _The Tempest_. 1986.
Opera.
Margaret Laurence. _The Diviners_. Fiction.
_Prospero's Books_. Dir. Peter Greenaway. 1991. Film.
_Tempest_. Dir. Paul Mazursky. 1982. Film.
_The Tempest_. Dir. Derek Jarman. 1980. Film.
Dennis Watkins (book) and Chris Harriott (lyrics). _Beach Blanket
Tempest_. 1984
(revised 1990). New Moon Theatre Company, unpublished. Musical.
Tad Williams. _Caliban's Hour_. Fiction. 1995.


Troilus and Cressida:

John Dryden. _Troilus and Cressida_. Drama.
Tom Stoppard. _Travesties_. Drama.

Twelfth Night:

_Your Own Thing_. Musical comedy.


Miscellaneous:

Edward Albee. _Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_ Drama.
David Allen. Cheapside_. 1984. Pub.: Currency Press, 1985). Drama.
Libby Appel and Michael Frlachman. _Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript
for
Performance and Analysis_. Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Drama.
Richard Armour. Twisted Tales from Shakespeare. NY: McGraw Hill, 1957.
W. H. Auden. _The Sea and the Mirror_. Verse.
Patrick Barlow. Shakespeare: The Truth, or from Glover to Genius.
London:
Methuen, 1993.
Stephan Bruce Becker. Music for various Shakespeare plays. Contemporary.
Contact
him at PARAGON860@aol.com.
Samuel Beckett. _Happy Days_.
Alan Bennett. _The Madness of George III_. 1994. Drama.
Edward Bond. _Bingo_. A play about Shakespeare.
Bertolt Brecht. _The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui_. Drama.
Anthony Burgess,. _Nothing Like the Sun. 1965. Fiction.
Anton Chekhov. _The Seagull_. Drama.
Mary Cowden Clarke. _The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines_. Fiction.
Stephanie Cowell. _Nicholas Cooke_. 1993. Fiction.
Stephanie Cowell. _The Physician of London_. 1995. Fiction.
Sigmund Freud, "The Theme of the Three Caskets,""The
ÔExceptions,'""Those
Wrecked by Success."Psychoanalytic theory.
Alfred Jarry. _Ubu Roi_. Drama.
Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg. _Weird Tales from Shakespeare_.
Fantasy/science fiction.
Vlady Kociancich. _The Last Days of William Shakespeare_. Translated by
Margaret
Costa. 1990. Fiction.
Charles and Mary Lamb. _Tales from Shakespeare_. Fiction.
Margaret Laurence. _The Stone Angel_. Fiction.
David McFadden.Three poems on "Timon of Athens,""Much Ado About
Nothing,"and
"Blue Angel"(much Marlene, of course, but much Sonnet 32, too).
Charles Marowitz,. _The Shrew_, _Hamlet_, etc.
Iris Murdoch. _The Black Prince_. Fiction.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company. _The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr
(Abridged)_.
Drama.
Leon Rooke. _Shakespeare's Dog_. Fiction.
Antony Sher. _The Year of the King_. Memoir.
Sting. _Nothing Like the Sun_. Album.
Tom Stoppard. _Jumpers_. Drama.
Derek Walcott. _Pantomime_. 1980.
Stanley Wells ed., _Shakespeare Burlesques_.