Guinness Book of World Records reports that there are approximately 420 movies of Shakespeare's works.
Step-by-step explanation:
William Shakespeare is a world’s best-selling play writer in literature. Shakespeare's plays and sonnets have been adapted into about 420 feature films and TV-movie versions. Movies on his works have collected over one billion dollars at the box office. Hamlet is his most adapted play followed by Romeo and Juliet and then by Macbeth.
The first movie produced on Shakespeare's work is 'King John'. His works have been translated into almost all languages and adapted for movies. In Hindi we have Omkara, Haider, Maqbul, Angoor and there likes modeled after Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors.