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Compiled by Michael J. Cummings BOLDFACED CAPITALS: Title Character of Shakespeare Play House of Wessex Egbert
(802-39)
Danish Line Svein Forkbeard (1014)
House of Wessex, Restored Edward the Confessor (1042-66)
House of Normandy William
I ("the Conqueror"), 1066-1087. Age at death: 60.
Stephen
Beauclerc, (son of William I's daughter and Count of Blois), 1135-1154.
Age at death: 50.
Henry
II (son of Henry I's daughter and Geoffrey Plantagenet) 1154-1189. Age
at death: 56.
House of Lancaster HENRY
IV ("Bolingbroke," son of the Duke of
Lancaster), 1399-1413. Age at death: 47.
Edward
IV (son of duke of York), 1461-1470, 1471-1483. Age at death: 41.
House of Tudor Henry
VII (whose grandfather married Henry V's widow), 1485-1509. Age at death:
53.
Great Britain: England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland House of Stuart James
I (son of Mary, Queen of Scots), 1603-1625. Age at death: 59.
The Republican Commonwealth (1649-1660) Oliver Cromwell (1649-58),
Lord Protector
Monarchy Restored House of Stuart, Restored Charles II (1660-85)
House of Orange and Stuart William III, Mary II (1689-1702) House of Stuart Anne (1702-14) House of Brunswick, Hanover Line George I (1714-27)
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Edward VII (1901-10) House of Windsor George V reigned as ruler of Great Britain from 1910 to 1920, then as ruler of the United Kingdom (See below) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland House of Windsor (Continued) George V, reigning as ruler of Great Britain from 1910 to 1920, continued his monarchy as ruler of the United Kingdom, which absorbed the northern part of Ireland as a new nation called Northern Ireland. The rest of Ireland became the independent Irish Free State by the 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty. The Irish Free State later became the Republic of Ireland. Edward VIII (1936)
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| Film | Director | Actors |
| Antony and Cleopatra (1974) | Trevor Nunn, John Schoffield | Richard Johnson, Janet Suzman |
| As You Like It (1937) NR | Paul Czinner | Henry Ainley, Felix Aylmer |
| Hamlet (1948) NR | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons |
| Hamlet (1990) NR | Kevin Kline | Kevin Kline |
| Hamlet (1991) PG | Franco Zeffirelli | Mel Gibson, Glenn Close |
| Hamlet (1996) PG-13 | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, |
| Hamlet (1964) NR | John Gielgud, Bill Colleran | Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn |
| Hamlet (1964) NR | Grigori Kozintsev | Innokenti Smoktunovsky |
| Hamlet (2000) NR | Cambpell Scott, Eric Simonson | Campbell Scott, Blair Brown |
| Henry V (1989) PG-13 | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branaugh, Derek Jacobi |
| Henry V( 1946) NR | Laurence Olivier | Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer |
| Julius Caesar (1950) NR | David Bradley | Charlton Heston |
| Julius Caesar (1953) NR | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Marlon Brando, James Mason |
| Julius Caesar (1970) G | Stuart Burge | Charlton Heston, Jason Robards |
| King Lear (1970) | Grigori Kozintsev | Yuri Yarvet |
| King Lear (1971) | Peter Brook | Cyril Cusack, Susan Engel |
| King Lear (1974) NR | Edwin Sherin | James Earl Jones |
| King Lear (1976) NR | Tony Davenall | Patrick Mower, Ann Lynn |
| King Lear (1984) NR | Michael Elliott | Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely |
| King Lear (1997) NR | Richard Eyre | Ian Holm |
| Love's Labour's Lost (2000) | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone |
| Macbeth (1971) R | Roman Polanski | Jon Finch, Francesca Annis |
| Macbeth (1978) NR | Philip Casson | Ian McKellen, Judy Dench |
| The Merchant of Venice (2004) R | Michael Radford | Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons |
| The Merchant of Venice (2001) NR | Christ Hunt, Trevor Nunn | David Bamber, Peter De Jersey |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor (1970) NR | Leon Charles, Gloria Grahame | |
| Midsummer Night's Dream (1996) PG-13 | Adrian Noble | Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) | Michael Hoffman | Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer |
| Much Ado About Nothing (1993) PG 13 | Kenneth Branaugh | Branaugh, Emma Thompson |
| Othello (1990) NR | Trevor Nunn | Ian McKellen, Michael Grandage |
| Othello (1955) NR | Orson Welles | Orson Welles |
| Ran (1985) Japanese Version of King Lear R | Akira Kurosawa | Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao |
| Richard II (2001) NR | John Farrell | Matte Osian, Kadina de Elejalde |
| Richard III (1912) NR | André Calmettes, James Keane | Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde |
| Richard III - Criterion Collection (1956) NR | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson |
| Richard III (1995) R | Richard Loncraine | Ian McKellen, Annette Bening |
| Romeo and Juliet (1968) G | Franco Zeffirelli | Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey |
| Romeo and Juliet (1996) PG-13 | Baz Luhrmann | Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes |
| Romeo and Juliet (1976) NR | Joan Kemp-Welch | Christopher Neame, Ann Hasson |
| The Taming of the Shrew (1967) | Franco Zeffirelli | Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton |
| The Taming of the Shrew (1976) | Kirk Browning | Raye Birk, Earl Boen, Ron Boussom |
| The Taming of The Shrew (1983) NR | Franklin Seales, Karen Austin, | |
| The Tempest PG | Paul Mazursky | John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands |
| The Tempest (1998) | Jack Bender | Peter Fonda, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, |
| Throne of Blood (1961) Macbeth in Japan NR | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada |
| Twelfth Night (1996) PG | Trevor Nunn | Helena Bonham Carter |
| The Winter's Tale (2005) NR | Greg Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company |