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• Archive: (Applause Books).
• How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world?
• How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century?
• We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare.
• But there is a much deeper, almost primal response as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private school to the sound and rhythm in Shakespeare's language which arouses our emotions: feelings of anger and sorrow, of passion and laughter.