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How Is Shakespeare Relevant Today

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Shakespeare, recognize that name? Well I bet you've heard it before. Shakespeare is a play writter from the fifteen hundreds. Which seems like a long time ago, and that's because it was a long time ago. See shakespeare has written many incredible famous plays that we even still perform today, such plays include: Romeo and Juliet, and many more. His life was so imcredible different from our but yet we still relate to it so much and love his plays to this very day. Keep reading to learn and find out how shakespeare's life was so different to ours, and simply about the misterious life of William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford. Stratford was a place that matched well pretty much any fifteen hundreds town you could imagine, …show more content…

His plays became popular quickly, as live shows were one of the only forms of enertainment, which compared to our life here is completely different, we have movies video games, computers, and still today we pay money to see our favorite plays performed in front of us, even some of shakespeares plays.

One difference to his world compared to our world is that there wasn't really a set grammar, how people talked was just that and it didn't matter if it was correct or not because nobody knew. That's why when you hear or read shakespeares literature it sounds a little funky or even completely not understandable. He even went as far to make new words that they added to the dictionary, and he changed the deffinition to some words, just shows how influential Shakespeare really was. Shakespeare simply read history books and used whatever grammar they had used in the books. Which brings me to my next point that he made 10 historical plays and he didn't care if they were acurate or not he just wrote them the way he wanted it to be.

Shakespeares plays were filled with rich and poor. The rich were to sit up top, and wore glamorous colors such as purple to represent their wealth. The poor stood below dressed in filthy rags. Again this shows justice to how everone in town loved his literatacy, and the sense of enertainment in watching a good

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