[Tax-chick]

Your average Shakespeare tragedy - distinguished from the historical plays, with their fields of dead - has a body count comparable to an episode of "Midsomer Murders." Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare popularizer, stars in plots as twisted as Titus Andronicus in the BBC series Wallander. Michael Hurst, "New Zealand's top Shakespearean actor," observed that the themes of his hit tv show, Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, were no different from the themes of Shakespeare, although the dialogue in the tv show was less sophisticated.

Thus, to contend that the modern audience cannot be engaged by Shakespeare is absurd. Even updating of the English text might not be necessary, if the actors will simply speak slowly and clearly, and if the action, stage or film, is directed with an eye toward explicating the text.

[chae]

Sons on anarchy is essentially Hamlet on motorcycles.

[freefdny]

Shakespeare and the tragedies are as relevant today as when they were written. The human heart remains the human heart. And you are right Shakespeare on stage can be amazing. Even Ethan Hawke couldn’t ruin Macbeth for me. And he tried he really tried. Henry Winkler “the Fonz” did a better job in the Happy Days production of Hamlet. “He’s talking about taking the big dive here people”.