On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:41, Peter Haworth wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:32:37 -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > > p.s. There's a great letter in this week's Radio Times. Someone is > > complaining about a recent TV version of some Shakespeare play. Their > > complaint is that it was performed in modern dress but the language > > hadn't been updated so they couldn't understand it! > > Maybe they should watch Forbidden Planet, or one of the many variations on > Romeo and Juliet that have been made. My 3 second search didn't bring up any > versions of Twelfth Night (the RT correspondent's subject of complaint) > which didn't keep the original name.
Possibly they were watching "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" [1] staring Leonardo DeCaprio and Claire Danes. I seem to recall that it was on the other day and does a reasonable job [2] of keeping the text while updating the setting. Simon. [1] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117509 [2] FSVO, YMMV, IANAMC etc :)
