This page is a tribute to English literature in the movies. I don't know about you, but I don't have the time anymore to read or reread 300 odd pages of the Canterbury Tales, or Hamlet in the original. I do have time to sit down and watch a movie with my wife and kids on occasion, however. And recently I've found that the quality of movies based on books or literature is quite good and high.
I found a great site on the Web that rents movies based on books. Here below are links to movies I found at my local video store (Videorama). Some movies are based not so much on a book or piece of literature, as they are on the author's life.
William Shakespeare (The Bard)'s Hamlet
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Jane Austin's Emma
Shelley and Byron in Gothic
Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
T.S. Eliot's life in Tom and Viv
Because my closest video store is very likely not your closest video store, I have provided a field that you can use to find a video store near you. So you, like me, can enjoy your family, a movie, and English and American literature all at the same time -- in the comfort of your living room.
In the future I plan to add more movies that I have seen, that are based on books. I also plan to add my own reviews. (If I can find the time.)
Romantics and Romantic Literature
English Romantics
The English Romantics -- the great ones -- were William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Cooleridge, John Keats, Percy B. Shelley, and Gordon Byron (aka Lord Byron).
American Romantics
The American Romantics were Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe (?), and, uh, well, I'll have to do some more research.
Victorians and Victorian Literature
The Victorians were Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, Tennyson, etc.
