The story has been dramatized on film in the following teleplays: • In 1960 as
The Black Sheep, an episode of the TV anthology series ''
Shirley Temple's Storybook''. • In 1974 as a TV movie
Baa Baa Black Sheep directed by
Mike Newell, which aired on
ITV in the UK and on
PBS three years later in the U.S. In 1993 it was used as the basis of an
opera, with a libretto by the Australian novelist
David Malouf and music by English composer
Michael Berkeley. ==References==