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Shakespeare In A Dystopian World

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TheIn this sentence, the author conveys the idea that authors rework Shakespeare in order to highlight a problem that has changed or continued from Shakespeare’s time to the author’s own time. By using a universal writer, authors who rework Shakespeare can connect to the readers more because they were already exposed to a similar work of literature. Shakespeare, having written countless amounts of plays, is very easy to “copy” from because of the many themes and genres that he has written about. Being a household name, it makes sense as to why many books, television shows, and movies have made references to Shakespeare. An example of a modern reworking of Shakespeare would be the movie Warm Bodies. The movie takes place in a dystopian world

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