The Moulding of Shakespeare’s Colourful World
The world is shaped and moulded by the artists of the past, and the artist that created the most significant shift in the world was William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. The first Globe Theatre was one of the first playhouses in London and viewing the shows there was past time for many of the people in England.The original Globe burned down and then was rebuilt. The second Globe Theatre was torn down as theatres were closed. The third Globe Theatre is the one currently standing. The third Globe Theatre was recreated by Sam Wanamaker, and the materials used were all based on and prepared the same way as the originals. Thus, because of this being one of the leading pastimes, the plays would …show more content…
Some of Shakespeare’s works have directly affected the world as we know it today. Author Bill Bryson notes, “He coined - or, to be carefully precise, made the first recorded use of - 2,035 words, and interestingly he indulged the practice from the very outset of his career.” (Bryson 148). This quote connects because it shows how much Shakespeare attributed to the English language, one of the most used languages today. When the world attempted to revolutionize from its past and to move to a brighter future, Shakespeare move with them. Even as the modernism movement, attempted to rid themselves of the past they still needed some works from the past (Grady, 21). This demonstrates that even as the world was modernizing and changing Shakespeare’s work changed with the world. His works were easily adapted to the new ways of the world everywhere. In the essay, Modernity, modernism and postmodernism in the twentieth-century's Shakespeare, written by Hugh Grady states “The shock-value, say, of the Cubist set used in Edward Gordon Craig’s 1912 production of Hamlet in the Moscow Art Theatre came in large measure form the presentation of traditional Shakespeare through radically new artistic media, but there were also aspects of Hamlet’s scepticism and alienation that worked well with modernist themes and values” (Grady, 24). This presents how the new experiences and art forms of the world allowed for Shakespeare’s work to only be viewed deeper. The characters and plot are so timeless that they can survive all these years while being adapted to be viewed by new audiences and by old audiences in a new light. The essay further notes that, “In America, Orson Welles was probably the best known ‘modernizer’ of Shakespeare, especially through his 1936 production of Macbeth set in voodoo-haunted Haiti and his use of Fascist uniforms for many of the characters of his 1937 Julius Caesar”
The world is shaped and moulded by the artists of the past, and the artist that created the most significant shift in the world was William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. The first Globe Theatre was one of the first playhouses in London and viewing the shows there was past time for many of the people in England.The original Globe burned down and then was rebuilt. The second Globe Theatre was torn down as theatres were closed. The third Globe Theatre is the one currently standing. The third Globe Theatre was recreated by Sam Wanamaker, and the materials used were all based on and prepared the same way as the originals. Thus, because of this being one of the leading pastimes, the plays would …show more content…
Some of Shakespeare’s works have directly affected the world as we know it today. Author Bill Bryson notes, “He coined - or, to be carefully precise, made the first recorded use of - 2,035 words, and interestingly he indulged the practice from the very outset of his career.” (Bryson 148). This quote connects because it shows how much Shakespeare attributed to the English language, one of the most used languages today. When the world attempted to revolutionize from its past and to move to a brighter future, Shakespeare move with them. Even as the modernism movement, attempted to rid themselves of the past they still needed some works from the past (Grady, 21). This demonstrates that even as the world was modernizing and changing Shakespeare’s work changed with the world. His works were easily adapted to the new ways of the world everywhere. In the essay, Modernity, modernism and postmodernism in the twentieth-century's Shakespeare, written by Hugh Grady states “The shock-value, say, of the Cubist set used in Edward Gordon Craig’s 1912 production of Hamlet in the Moscow Art Theatre came in large measure form the presentation of traditional Shakespeare through radically new artistic media, but there were also aspects of Hamlet’s scepticism and alienation that worked well with modernist themes and values” (Grady, 24). This presents how the new experiences and art forms of the world allowed for Shakespeare’s work to only be viewed deeper. The characters and plot are so timeless that they can survive all these years while being adapted to be viewed by new audiences and by old audiences in a new light. The essay further notes that, “In America, Orson Welles was probably the best known ‘modernizer’ of Shakespeare, especially through his 1936 production of Macbeth set in voodoo-haunted Haiti and his use of Fascist uniforms for many of the characters of his 1937 Julius Caesar”