An ode to the Bard: How Shakespeare’s iconic works resonate subtly in cinema today

Shakespeare never goes out of style. And the most recent example, after Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Macbeth-quoting Birdman, is of course Marvel’s The Black Panther. Its villain, Eric Killmonger, is a quintessential Shakespearean tragic-hero whose intentions are initially good but his hamartia turns him into a ‘villain’. But that’s not the only reference.