The first version of one of the most remade movies of all time.
One of plays by William Shakespeare adapted by the Vitagraph Company of America in 1908. The others were A Comedy of Errors (1908), Othello (1908), Macbeth (1908), Romeo and Juliet (1908), Richard III (1908), Antony and Cleopatra (1908) and The Merchant of Venice (1908).