OPINION: Lessons from Shakespeare For Screenwriters

An odd trend in cinema surfaced in the 1990s and continued into the 2000s. A spate of teen films relocated the plots of William Shakespeare plays to high schools. O updated Othello to make the main character a basketball player rather than a military general. 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU found a natural fit for The Taming of the Shrew in the teen dating scene. SHE’S THE MAN set the cross-dressing comedy of Twelfth Night within the gendered world of football (or soccer). ROMEO + JULIET

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