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“ As part of the 2012 Summer Olympics hosted in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company challenged theater groups around the world to create contemporary re-imaginings of 16th century playwright William Shakespeare’s classics.” This was one of William Shakespeare’s global influence which means that Shakespeare wanted acting groups from other countries reenact some of Shakespeare’s plays. This connects to my argument by explaining to 9th graders what it is like experiencing many different challenges around the world. Students may consider to continue reading Shakespeare’s works to know his experiences. The story prompts the audience to reflect on how pride, regret, a lack of mutual understanding and interference from the outside are obstacles to resolving conflicts peacefully.
One might even say that appreciation of Shakespeare is the touchstone of an educated literary taste. The trouble is that most schoolchildren today don’t like him and don’t get it. This isn’t their fault. Shakespeare wrote over 400 years ago. Grammar and vocabulary have altered to the extent that teenagers tend to dismiss anything written before about 1960 as “ Old English.” The large and increasing number of second-language speakers are in the same boat as Voltaire from the start. Then, most schoolchildren had at least some exposure to the King James Bible. We did not need to have “thee” and “thou” explained to us. Even the key selling point that
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Shakespeare’s plays can teach students life experiences and conquering faces by performing on stage infront of many people. You may have global influences like William Shakespeare had. I suggest you read William Shakespeare's plays so that you’ll learn so much stuff like love or much more variety of things. You want to remember what acting was like for people back many years

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