Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Final Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8wHTj6wAM

This video presents a very strange rendition of Measure For Measure in a stop motion picture. What was most interesting to me was the way that they were able introduce the main ideas of the play, but in a contemporary dialogue. This helped to show the way language has evolved, but there is nothing new that can be shown for it. The same words, phrases, and depictions are there, but there are only new ways of expressing it. These types of changes occur everyday, but it will be interesting to see how dated Shakespeare's language will seem in the future. If it does not already seem foreign, just wait.

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