Watch one of the three plays from the Required Shakespeare Film page. Shakespeare is still taught today because he is still relevant today. Shakespeare wrote about the human emotions and failings that we all still deal with today–love, jealousy, power, envy, and pride. Identify the major theme of the Shakespeare play you watched and the conflict/issue that the main character/s face. Then, locate a news story online that contains a similar theme and provide a link to it. Discuss the similarities/differences in the way Shakespeare’s characters and the people in the news story handled the conflicts/issues.
