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Certainly there are not as many films based on his work as are based on Shakespeare's work. I can only recall a few film about Faust and one about Die Leiden des jungen Werther. A good example against this are the works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe oder other great writers like him. It is to state, that there must be something more to it, because there are other books or plays everyone knows and they can be refered to once in a while but, they are not made into a movie that often. This could go on and on, but certainly this can only be an assumption. Maybe Hamlet has developed its own dynamic: Because everyone knows it, and has read it, it is refered to in many different ways and because it is refered to all the time, people still read it. Therefore it is quoted and referred to all the time and as a result it is made into films and performed once more. Maybe we consider it as special only because everyone knows it and it stays in the minds of our people. These reactions raise the thought that the whole play seems have something timeless and special about it. There are other plays that seem to 'return' every couple years, when they are made into a movie or are once again performed on stage, but somehow people seem to react to Hamlet in a special way. Additionally it was made into feature films many times and still seems to entertain audiences around the world. Hamlet is a play that still is very much read and performed, maybe therefore it stays in people's minds. I am am talking about Shakespeare longest 3 and most complex play, Hamlet. But there is one play by William Shakespeare that is considered special by many people. 2 - Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and The Tempest, to name only a few plays he is famous for. 1 In his lifespan William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. He worked as an actor, a director, a producer and of course a he was a famous playwrite. He lived about 400 years ago in medieval England. William Shakespeare - Everyone around the world at least has heard this name before.