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Image description: the yaer was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it… probably another Electronic-Mail


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  • @lars
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    Shakespeare didn’t sound like classical poshness to his works’ first audiences. It had new words in it and didn’t require mispronunciations in order to rhyme. It was more like storytelling via rap battle and I’m down for some early 21st-century upgrades to it.

    • Echo Dot
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      23 days ago

      There is a whole bunch of 21st century rewrites of Shakespeare but I can’t remember who did them. It might have been the BBC.

      I know that Macbeth takes place in a Michelin star restaurant. And I’m fairly sure Taming Of The Shrew takes place in a Centre Parcs

      • @squeakycat@lemmy.ml
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        122 days ago

        Similarly, I’ve seen a few operas that were modernizes. To varying success… The ring cycle doesn’t really work well with that butbla bohem was pretty good.