![]() How Teens Connect to Shakespeare’s Themes In fact, show me a teenager who isn’t affected by love, loss, family expectation, and sex, and, like our friend Hamlet says, I’ll “shuffle off this mortal coil”and into an early grave. ![]() His examination of the human condition is still entirely relevant. ![]() Our world may have changed since then, but when it comes to people, it hasn’t changed much at all. But when I teach Shakespeare to teenagers, once they get past their fear and trepidation of the language, they continue to personally connect to what he wrote about so long ago. One might imagine that the teachings of Shakespeare might not be relevant anymore, 400 years after the fact. Author, It’s Not Hard to Learn the Bard: A Guide to Introducing Shakespeare to Teenagers.
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