Shakespeare Now
In the 21st century, Shakespeare is what advertising execs call a "brand", a multinational that keeps thousands in employment across all media:
Theatre: Shakespeare is far and away the most performed playwright living or dead. If his plays were in copyright, he would be a millionaire many times over. Find out just how many UK productions are planned in the near future here.
Internet: he's all over the internet - Google "Shakespeare", and it returns over 50.9 million results
Print: there's more than 20 major editions of the Complete Works in print (in English) - and Amazon.com returns over 120,000 titles of commentary available to buy. There's even an edition in, ahem, Klingon
Movies: there's over 50 filmed versions of 'Hamlet' alone
Audio: tenminuteshakespeare.co.uk is all you need to know!
TV and Radio: When Brian, the winner of the UK's 2007 Big Brother TV series claimed never to have heard of Shakespeare, dozens of threads immediately appeared debating whether anyone could be that stupid
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