Shakespeare is about the intoxicating richness of the language… It’s like the beer I drink. I drink 8.2 per cent I.P.A., and by changing the language in this modernizing way, it’s basically shifting to Bud Light. Bud Light’s acceptable, but it just doesn’t pack the punch and the excitement and the intoxicating quality of that language.
This, and more about why the Oregon Shakespeare Festival should (or shouldn’t) care about modernizing Shakespeare’s language, from the New Yorker.
