Film wasn't invented until 300 years after Shakespeare died, and he never wrote a single screenplay himself. But the films that have been adapted from his plays number in the hundreds. Spanning vast expanses of time and space, from the silent film era to talkies, his works have proven irresistible to the masters of Eastern and Western cinema.
電影在莎翁去世後的三百年才發明，莎翁生前沒寫過一部電影劇本，但是改編自他戲劇的電影卻高達數百部，超越時空、地域限制，從默片橫跨到有聲電影時代，吸引東西方的電影大師。