When dealing with text of Jacobean writers such as
Shakespeare, one has a great deal of freedom in interpreting
it. His words are full of not only meaning, but entendres,
alliterations, and metaphors that allows a great deal of
artistic freedom when actualizing it into performance.
Perhaps that is why his plays have been a longtime favorite
standard performance material, and more recently ( the past
100 years), have become very popular to produce and present
What allows for Shakespeare to be presented so easily
on film, despite the fact they were written hundreds of
years ago when the very idea of film was nonexistent, is the
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