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Shakespeare Goes Digital.
If continued, the current proliferation of DVDs will insure a full repertory in twenty-first-century home entertainment centers of William Shakespeare's plays in state-of-the-art formats. The single spies currently heralding the battalions of future DVDs are the Paul Gzinner As You Like It (1936), the John Gielgud/Richard Burton Hamlet (1964), and the Michael Hoffman William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999). Taken together, the three demonstrate the almost infinite variety of ways of putting Shakespeare in the movies: the As You Like It is cinema one step from theatrical tradition; the Hamlet, a recording from multiple cameras of a stage play; and the Midsummer Night's Dream, a full-scale cinematic adaptation spatially and temporally liberated by a mobile camera.
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