Shakespeare Trilogy
After gaining widespread popularity in the film medium, Olivier was approached by several investors (namely Filippo Del Giudice, Alexander Korda and J. Arthur Rank), to create several Shakespearean films, based on stage productions of each respective play. Olivier tried his hand at directing, and as a result, created three critically successful films: Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III. Because of the failure of Richard III to turn a profit, he was unable to secure financing for a fourth film, an adaptation of Macbeth, with which he had had a great success on stage at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1955.
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“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)