Shakespeare adapted a lot of his plays from other plays, stories or history. If he did the same today I guess he might be one of those Hollywood screenwriters who take foreign films and Americanize them in remakes.
Since the company had a royal charter, some of the plays, like Macbeth, were designed for buttering up royalty. James was descended from the winner.
I strongly recommend Will in the World. I’ve read a few bios, but this is by far the best.
Have at thee!
Gesundheit! [/Firesign]
Oh - those blows.
“Lay on Macduff” would have a whole new meaning.
Like, er, you know, Tarantino. 
Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction aren’t exactly “remakes”, true, but deep down they’re indie/art films shot full of American commercial sensibility.
Shakespeare would be a dead Vaudevillian.
He’d be doing Blue Man Group nowadays.
I was thinking “E-I-E-I-O!”
Also Romeo and Juliet and Anthony and Cleopatra would really, really sizzle.
Underage bonking 
Your inbox would get “Shakespeare Spam.” Hot underaged F*cking
Yeah, RosenCATS.
FROM THE DESK OF: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
POSITION: SENIOR MANAGER, BILLS AND EXCHANGE
Dear Sir,
I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust
to enable my colleagues and I carry out an urgent
business opportunity in my department. I work with the
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I did read that one a couple of years ago, and Shakespeare always knew where his bread was buttered. But on some level I think he had to be writing for himself, however he bent his characters or plots to please the right people.
My guess is that he’d be Aaron Sorkin or Joss Whedon, becoming best known for American television but branching out into film periodically.
This could be quite legit y’know.
It isn’t in uppercase
Haven’t you ever seen the kitchen of a Mexican restaurant? Or of almost any restaurant?
The line chef would be Cervantes!
I was going to mention Joss Whedon.
Tragedy, comedy & romance–all in one story? Excellent prose styling? Hey–even some songs!
He’d be writing plays. Shakespeare used the power of words to conjure up atmosphere and scene. In the movies those are created by other people than the writer, the writer provides the plot and the dialogue.
Shakespeare wasn’t keen on creating original plots; all his works, bar one or two, are adaptations of other writers’ works for the stage. Yeah, he was no mean hand at dialogue, and it’s true he always had an eye for the bottom line, the dough, so he may have gone into movies to earn a buck.
But the theatre would remain his base, of that I’m convinced.