Despite Shakespeare's plays have universal appeal all over the world and thus have been translated into several languages, this essay argues that adaptors experience difficulty with the text, the language, poetry, stage conventions with reference to Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Skilled adaptors do their best to film these plays. In so doing, they experience some problems, according to which some critics claim that Shakespeare's plays are impossible to film. To overcome this, filmmakers have developed certain techniques in order to enable the screen serve Shakespeare's dramatic structure, his characterization and his poetry. To begin with, Shakespeare's great poetry seems to be one of the most common difficulties that modern adaptors experience. It is possible to recognize that directors's criteria for a successful production may include the treatment of Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra as poems since most of Shakespeare's plays have a large body of poetry. Manvell (1971) remarks that
