The Long Decade: 989-2001 -- The Words of Mercury and the Songs of Apollo: Branagh's Journey from Henry Vto Love's Labour' Lost -- The Golden Girl and a Fistful of Dust: Zeffirelli's Hamlet -- Shakespeare and Hollywood: Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing -- Song, Sea, and Sexual Mystery: Nunn's Twelfth Night -- Checkmate: Parker's Othello -- Changing Colors Like the Chameleon: Loncraine's Richard III -- Shooting Stars: Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet -- A Clean, Well-Spoken Place: Branagh's Hamlet -- Bankside Shakespeare: Edzard's As You Like It and The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream -- Shakespeare and Hollywood Revisited: The Dreams of Noble and Hoffman -- The Prince of Manhattan: Almereyda's Hamlet -- A Wilderness of Tigers: Taymor's Titus -- Conclusion: The Abrupt Edge.