akespeare still studied today?
You won’t enjoy them or appreciate them, and you won’t understand them. The greatest reason to study Shakespeare is that there is a reason it is still popular. The stories’ themes are timeless. These are tales of young love, madness, family drama, aging, ambition, murder, and intrigue.
What makes Shakespeare great?
Shakespeare, however, had the wit and wisdom to steal plots and ideas from a lot of the plays of that era and top them with better poetry. He also had more insight into characters’ feelings and motives, and cleverer handling of light and dark, change of pace, and the weighing up of right and wrong.
What was Shakespeare’s nickname?
Bard of AvonThe BardWilliam Shakespeare/Nicknames