What is it about Shakespeare’s plays that makes them so relatable, universal, and enduring in contemporary culture? What themes does he explore that make it so?
The play/script that I would like to use is Shakespeare’s most studied play, Hamlet. What is it about Hamlet that makes it’s storyline, according to Arden Shakespeare, capable of “seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others”, and “the world’s most filmed story after Cinderella“? This might also explain why it was Shakespeare’s most popular work in his lifetime and ours. Hamlet can be analyzed, interpreted and argued about from many perspectives.
~Helena
p.s. Reason cannot be “because it’s really really good.” Even though it’s technically a reason.
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Haha, the p.s made me laugh.
That was me btw. I was logged in to another account for a different project that I’m doing.