Why???

The reason why Shakespeare continues to endure changes in style, interpretation and society is because he was able to encompass the human condition so eloquently and succinctly, regardless of the parameters of culture, race, religion and values etc. Here is a man who transcended existance to the point where he could produce a canon of work that speaks to everyone - get over the Elizabethan prose and look at the core of his work...it's all there...love, hate, saddness, suffering, joy....no single playwright has ever eclipsed his unique vision of the human condition as frail, but nonetheless, courageous and extraordinary. He survives constant cristicism, constant reinterpretation, constant change...because at the core he speaks to us all. I defy anyone to name a playwright who has so profoundly effected the course of human introspection and evolution...get over being intimidated by the language...get over the middle-class anxiety of not understanding his classicism...read his plays and open yourself to the possibility that he might just be saying something that even the peasants can understand...for God's sake they were there in the pits cheering him on with the gentry...get over the cultural cringe and find yourself a legitimate vantage point from which to criticise him with some credibility and integrity. He's a big boy...his work speaks for itself and it will answer any scepticism...build a bridge and get over it and hell, maybe you'll begin to wrestle with the human condition the way he was open to...there's a Shakespeare in all of us, a Hamlet, a Macbeth, an Othello, a Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question." BE!