Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext | David Tennant in Hamlet by The Royal Shakespeare Company. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis | Kevin Spacey as Richard lll at the Old Vic. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Sam Troughton as Edmund in King Lear Elizabeth Taylor as Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. Photograph: Snap/ Rex | Stanley Tucci as Puck in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia in Hamlet. Photograph: Rex Features | Johnny Vegas as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photograph: BBC | Adrian Lester as Othello. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Orson Welles as Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext | Pippa Nixon as Rosalind in As You Like It. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Roger Allam as Prospero in The Tempest. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Jude Law as Henry V. Photograph: Johan Persson | Matt Ryan as Caliban in The Tempest. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Eddie Redmayne as Richard II. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Gemma Jones as Queen Margaret in Richard III. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Josie Lawrence as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Eve Best as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Photograph: Tristram Kenton | Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra. Photograph: Tristram Kenton