Kurosawa's adaption of King Lear, titled Ran, presents a streamlined, coherent plot that addresses issues in Shakespeare's original, including simplifying subplots and character motivations.
Consider what has happened to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo Montague kills Juliet Capulet's cousin Tybalt in their families' feud, one character argues that Romeo should be forgiven, since Tybalt had just killed a friend of Romeo's.
Billed as "high farce," Portland theatrical dance company BodyVox's late spring performance, Death and Delight, blends Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream into a tragicomic medley of Shakespeare-inspired choreography.
Baldwin's journey with Shakespeare illustrates a profound relationship where he initially views language as a tool of oppression, only to later embrace it as a means to express his own experiences.