What are some negatives about adapting a Shakespearean play into modern text ?

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What are some negatives about adapting a Shakespearean play into modern text ?

Answer 1

Well, for one, you lose the original beauty of the words. Shakespeare meant for his works to project the inflections, slang, and language of his life in the Elizabethan era.

For another, adapting a Shakespeare play into modern text is a little difficult; you have to understand the original and actual words and their meanings and placements in the English language. Adapting works from one language to another (which, if you think about it, Elizabethan english IS another dialect) is never easy, especially if you don't know what you're reading in the original play.

Answer 2

You would lose the poetic meanings, imagery, metaphor and all the nuances that make up the remarkable beauty of Shakespeare, that was meant to be seen and heard in a theatrical setting and not read by someone sitting in a quite room.

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