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How different is our world? There are multiple ways that Shakespeare time is different from our time now. I am going to explain three of them with you today. The three I will be covering today are, Shakespeare's words, his actor respect and their acting from ours. Shakespeare's time is really different from ours although we might think that it must have been the same because of all the acting back then. Actually, some of it is the same if we are looking and comparing the acting but there are also some big differences. My first difference between then and now is the respect for the actors. Now when you go to see a play or musical you respect the actors really well. You may have not liked the show but you still give respect for the actors that have tried really hard to put that show on for you. During Shakespeare's time they were the opposite. In the article titled "Shakespeare: Not of an age, but for all mankind" By Douglass A. Burger, says "...that we in the twentieth-century behave better. We don't yell insults at the actors, spit, or toss orange peels on the ground." Seeing this quote we can tell that …show more content…

If you have ever read or seen a Shakespeare play you know how much different we talk today, then he did. According to the article called "Shakespeare: words, words, words" by S.S. Morty, it says, "Surely Shakespeare took full advantage of the unparalleled linguistic freedom to incent, to experiment with, and to indulge in lavishly." In his time, he did not have any grammars or dictionary he had to follow. Knowing that he did not have to follow anything he made up a lot of his own words. When he would produce a play, the audience a lot of the time didn't know and understand some of the words that were in his play. They wouldn't know the words because they didn't have anything to know the definition of them. This explains how and why Shakespeare spoke the way he

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