1. Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, “Totally Clueless?: Shakespeare Goes Hollywood in the 1990s”, in Shakespeare the Movie, edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 17–18.
2. Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, “Introduction: Shakespeare, the Film”, in Shakespeare the Movie, edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt (New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 2.
3. Gary Crowdus, “Words, Words, Words: Recent Shakespearean Films”, Cinéaste 24, no. 4 (1998), p. 15.
4. Douglas Brode, Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 56.
5. Francisco Menendez, “Redefining Originality: Pearce and Luhrmann’s Conceptualization of Romeo and Juliet”, Creative Screenwriting 5, no. 2 (1998), pp. 36–37.