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Why Rewrite Shakespeare Into Modern English? Why Not, Says Playwright Hansol Jung
By Diep Tran | May 17, 2023
It’s a question she’s gotten many times about her work on Romeo and Juliet, and Jung’s answer is always the same: “Why not? It’s not erasing what’s already there. What’s already there is being done so many times everywhere all the time. This is an experiment.”
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