Shakespeare's Birthday on 23 April has become my annual excuse to dip into Shakespeare, but this year I went slightly off piste. Instead of the “big” plays in their usual form, I opted for a triple bill of films that do something far more interesting: they hand the story to the people usually stuck at the edges. Three films, three very different tones, but all circling the same idea, what happens when Shakespeare’s minor or marginalised characters finally get their say? I sta
