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Heresy? We Don’t Know What Some Of Shakespeare’s Words Mean. Should We Replace Them?

THEATRE Posted: May 24, 2016 2:29 pm

“Ever more voices are suggesting that Shakespearean text be adjusted for modern audiences, with the most artistically responsible attempts so far being ones where only words and phrases that truly impede understanding are judiciously replaced by modern ones.”

THEATRE Published: 05.15.16

Read the story in The American Interest Published: 05.15.16

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