I also like the Zeffirelli version. I watched it just the other night with my oldest daughter. She will be reading "Romeo and Juliet" in school this year. She got a leg up on it and read it over the summer but was wanting to see a film version and was about to go rent the latest version that came out on film not long ago that was so MTVized. I headed her off at the pass and whipped out the tape I have of the Zeffirelli production. She has seen some of films with Michael York and Olivia Hussey and was astonished at their youth . Then I told her it was from 1968, She really enjoyed it. I am not fond of many of the newer productions especially when they try to make them musicals, I can barely get through "Westside Story".

Another of my favorite Shakespeare adaptations is Kenneth Brannagh's "Much Ado About Nothing". Wonderfully done and Michael Keaton was such a hoot as the Constable. "Remember your worship, he did call me ***!".