... His plays have inspired successful Hollywood films such "10 Things I Hate About You," based on "The Taming of the Shrew." The Indian film industry has drawn heavily on Shakespeare as seen in movies like Angoor, where the plot is drawn almost entirely from "A Comedy of Errors" and Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. One of his most most respected and beloved plays, "Romeo and Juliet," has inspired scores ... of movies such as Baz Luhrmann's version starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. To add to this, ... there have been countless stage productions of his plays. His works continue t...

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... many themes including love which features frequently in the opening scene of the play. Many of Shakespeare's play's follow the same pattern such as "a comedy of errors" which also hold the same layout. Twelfth Night was made by Shakespeare taking events from GL'Igannati in which a ship wreck also occurs.He also takes another part of his story from Barnaby Riche's Apolonius and Silla, in which ... someone falls in love with the duke. Twelfth Night follows many other of the ... traditions set in Shakespeare's comedies, such as ... ...

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