when was the first film production of a shakespeare play made
List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations As of August 2016[update], the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,292 films, including those under production but not yet released.[3] The earliest known production is King John from 1899.[4]
Romeo and Juliet It is unknown when exactly Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's nurse refers to an earthquake she says occurred 11 years ago.[24] This may refer to the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580, which would date that particular line to 1591. Other earthquakes—both in England and in Verona—have been proposed in support of the different dates.[25] But the play's stylistic similarities with A Midsummer Night's Dream and other plays conventionally dated around 1594–95, place its composition sometime between 1591 and 1595.[26] One conjecture is that Shakespeare may have begun a draft in 1591, which he completed in 1595.[27]