| Year | Read | Month | Play | Genre | Watch | BE_RecMovie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | ✔️ | January | Hamlet | Tragedy | ✔️ | Watch the glorious Kenneth Branagh version. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | February | King Lear | Tragedy | ✔️ | Watch the Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson version. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | March | Much Ado About Nothing | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the Kenneth Branagh version. He directs a star-studded cast in his version with the likes of Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | April | Romeo and Juliet | Tragedy | ✔️ | Watch Baz Lurhman’s modern adaption, with guns instead of swords, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | May | Othello | Tragedy | ✔️ | Watch the Lawrence Fishburne version. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | June | The Tempest | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the Dame Helen Mirren version from 2010 |
| 2021 | ✔️ | July | Macbeth | Tragedy | ✔️ | Watch the 2015 version of Shakespeare directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Michael Fassbender who was born to play Macbeth |
| 2021 | ✔️ | August | Richard II | History | ✔️ | Watch the 2012 version directed by Rupert Goold starring Ben Whishaw and Patrick Stewart. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | September | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Comedy | ✔️ | Watch the beautiful and mesmerising 1935 Max Reinhardt version. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | September | Venus and Adonis | Narrative poem | ✔️ | No movie reccomendation from BE |
| 2021 | ✔️ | October | Julius Caesar | Tragedy | ✔️ | Watch the 1953 version of Julius Caesar starring Marlon Brando as Mark Antony. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | November | Henry IV Part 1 | History | ✔️ | Watch Orson Welles’ 1965 adaptation of five of Shakespeare’s historical plays rolled into one, following the character of Falstaff, Chimes At Midnight. |
| 2021 | ✔️ | December | Henry IV Part 2 | History | ✔️ | Watch Gus Van Sant’s 1991 My Own Private Idaho starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix |