Analyze the differences between the 2006 BBC version of Macbeth and Shakespeare's version. Comment on how the story has been changed to suit the demands of a modern day audience and review the T.V adaptation.

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Analyze the differences between the 2006 BBC version of Macbeth and Shakespeare’s version. Comment on how the story has been changed to suit the demands of a modern day audience and review the T.V adaptation.

In this essay I’m going to write about the differences and similarities between the 2006 BBC version of Macbeth and Shakespeare’s version. Within the first paragraph I’m going to write about how well the script and settings have been adapted to suit a modern day audience. The second paragraph will be about the types of filming effects that the new version of Macbeth uses to make a modern day audience get the same feeling out of watching Macbeth as the people of the 16th century would have got watching Macbeth on stage as a play and noting how effective these effects have been.

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In the third paragraph I’m going to write about how well the two versions show Lady Macbeth’s change from sanity to madness and how the new version by the BBC have used camera effects to show this change.

     I think that the BBC have done a very good job of changing the script written by Shakespeare (in old English) designed for the stage into a film script and into modern day English and into the 21st century. I think that the best change within the script is the three predictions that the witches gave because in the BBC’s version ...

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