How have these versions become dated? Has Shakespeare's language changed in 30 years?
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Perhaps it is judged as being "dated" because the actors spoke proper English, used complete sentences and didn't use modern inner-city slang and vulgarities :-)
From the article:
The treasurer of the British Shakespeare Association, Stuart Hampton-Reeves, said it was important that modern audiences weren't bombarded with too much text. He said: "Modern audiences are used to immediate language, plot delivery and fast cutaways. The best Shakespeare adaptations have cut the text in a way that is suitable for TV."
Translation: "We feel that audiences are too stupid to be able to grasp and pay attention to an authentic production of Shakespeare, so we want it to be edited it the way MTV does, and the scripts should be focus-grouped by third-graders"