Macbeth: Media comparison

In this essay I shall be comparing two, media versions of 'Macbeth' one was made for a television audience, another for a cinema audience. The original version of the text was for the stage, and these two media could not have been dreant of by Shakespeare. As Kenneth Branagh says "There are so many different ways to match images with words. This four hundred year old play, you could approach it as if it were a completely new script." This statement could explain why there are so many new adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, and why they change so much from the original
Roman Polanski's version (1971) of the play doesn't change too much as it is for a cinema audience, and the people viewing it would have payed and would have been expecting a more conventional, unchanged 'Macbeth' because they made a deliberate choice to view it. On the other hand people watching 'Macbeth on the Estate' may not have wanted, or intended to see a Shakespeare film and may not normally opt to watch S...