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The mere mention of the name Shakespeare and the conversation gets serious real fast. Gone for more than 400 years, the man has achieved transcendent cultural, intellectual and pop icon status. Who today could lay claim to such four centuries from now – Taylor Swift? Akira Kurosawa based the bulk of his samurai westerns on Shakespearean tragedies. “The Forbidden Planet” (1956), “10 Things I Hate About You” (1999) and “My Own Private Idaho” (1991) are just a handful of the many pop films based on the works by the Bard of Avon. The man himself was reimagined on screen in “Shakespeare in Love” (1998) and the lesser-known Kenneth Branagh outing, “All is True” (2018). Add to that

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