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Ask yourself why Shakespeare's plays continue to be read and produced throughout the world so many years after they were written - more than any other playwright who ever wrote for the theatre. Why are modern readers and audiences still caught up in the stories Shakespeare wrote, the themes he chose to explore? Part of the answer must lie in the fact that the values in Shakespeare's plays are basically humanitarian and therefore timeless. They are still as relevant today as they were in his day. His characters speak for us all. We recognise in them ourselves and those around us. His themes explore basic problems and concepts that we still face today. Productions over the years have changed from the realistic to the stylised. There has been a move back to how the plays would have been produced in Shakespeare's day, with the simplest of settings and costumes, and the minimum of props.