"Shakespeare's plays have many things to offer to the contemporary audience. Discuss."

Shakespeare's infamous plays has to offer many things, including 3 pre-essay drafts, 5 rewording drafts, hours spent buried in printed notes courtesy of SparkNotes.com, massive bags under your eyes from the lack of sleep due to late night studying, headaches and white hairs due to mental stress, phobia of the word "challenge" due to the countless times of writing it, and sore hands from attempting to race against time on the actual day of your exam.

“Shakespeare’s plays still remain interesting and entertaining. Describe how Shakespeare achieves this.”

Firstly, the further definition is required of the terms “interesting” and “entertaining.” Is it, indeed, not:

Entertaining: 1. to hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably, divert; amuse.
Interesting: 1. engaging or exciting and holding the attention of curiosity.

So, unless dictionary.com is trying to fool me under my very eyes, I believe that is the definition and I shall use such terms as thus.

Shakespeare’s plays is ENTERTAINING through the use of sexual jokes, demonstrated in “am I but three inches? Nay, thy horn is a foot long” as it amuses the audience by challenging us about the sexual nature of Shakespeare. However, apart from that, it cannot be defined as entertaining, as it does not “hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably.” It also cannot be said that it is indeed interesting, as when applied to the context of the contemporary teenage culture, it fails to “engage or excite and hold the attention of curiosity” of the 21st century audience.

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Yes, today marked the day of our ONE AND ONLY .. YR 9 ENGLISH HALF YEARLY. If anyone mentions the word “taming” or “shrew” to me again, I will seriously puke or jump off the nearest building.

Okay well, truthfully, I think Shakespeare’s plays are actually really well structured and yeah, he’s one clever dude, but surely, after studying his works for three years, I believe that .. IT’S TIME THAT DUDE CHILLAXED FOR ABIT AND TOOK APPRECIATION OF THE WORLD AROUND HIM INSTEAD OF DISTURBING OTHERS BY OFFERING INSIGHTS TO THE WORLD AROUND HIM TO SOMEONE ELSE.

Haha, this morning when I was frantically writing during the English exam like every other person, I could see Justin next to me just sitting there glancing around the room and indulging in the scenery in the most relaxed manner. LOL man, that guy’s got style. =)

Anywhooooo, that’s one test down, only 3099859485 more to go.

Ahh, not in the mood right now.. something’s just.. ah. =\ I'll post later.

xx.

George.