Illusion and reality The first is Shakespeare's exploration of the nature of illusion and reality. This is manifest in a number of ways: Shakespeare regularly plays with the illusion and deception inherent in the medium of theatre itself, from the complications arising from a boy actor playing a girl dressed up as a boy, to plays-within-plays. By analogy, the theatre becomes the world, in which our assumptions about what is real and what is not …showed first 75 words of 800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 800 total…of the many different methods they can apply to their reading or viewing of Shakespeare in the future. In that sense you could say that my work is concerned with exploring the 'human condition': I wrote about relationships, politics, emotions and so on. The context for these changes, but many of the feelings and reactions seem to have persisted over the centuries - which is why we can use the same language to describe them.