Why Is Shakespeare Still Read Today

Nate Searle

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11/8/16 Shakespeare lived hundreds of years ago why are we still using his words. Well he happens to be the best play writer even to this day. In his time, he wasn't actually the best he was down the list of play writes. We still use his words today, like the plays Romeo and Juliet and plays like that. Now we have a lot more resources than he did in his time period. We are lucky we have a hell of a lot more resources them him. How come we can't have a play write that is the new Shakespeare.

Why is Shakespeare so good? It's just how he his he was constantly writing new plays and making up new phrases. Such as "assassinate," "bump," "gloomy," "suspicious," "and hurry;". He invented literally dozens of phrases which we use

Yes, that had to do with the lake of technology. Also that he wasn't best play write. Now as we look back on his words in our modern day we realize how smart he was in his day. He still uses his words and plays in our modern world today. Many high schools have put on the play Romeo and Juliet, and a few other famous pieces by him. What he had to use to display his words is just costumes and actors. What do we have, we have actors, makeup, computers, lights, green screens and many other advantages. Yet Shakespeare is still the

Designed as a faithful reconstruction of the original, it uses the building methods of the time and traditional materials (oak timbers, plaster walls, wooden pegs, water-reeds for thatching the roof). From above, the shape seems circular (actually, it is twenty-six sided) with three covered tiers of seats surrounding a central area which is open to the sky. There the "groundlings" may stand to see the action taking place on the stage, which occupies almost half of the inner space. There are no artificial lights, no conventional sets, no fancy rigging. Now in our time period we have fancy lighting, comfy chairs, beautiful stages, and ad acquit shelter from the weather. We have the advantages over him but why could he put on a show in one week when it could take us close to one year. Yet we have all of the advantages. It just goes to show how lazy we are in our current time period and how we take advantage of the resources we