15shakespeare
It's common for the classic work of Shakespeare to be re-skinned with contemporary costumes or, in fact, with costumes from any given period.
Shakespeare's own work tends toward the temporally indeterminate, with clocks striking in the age of Julius Caesar, Hamlet's University of Wittenburg, past royal histories recast for contemporary political effect, and many loosely-placed and loosely-dated fantasy scenarios.
The perception of "anachronism" varies widely with historical periods. Some cultural epochs are quite happy to recast the past in their own image. Others seem keen to impose a revived past upon themselves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachrony
15shakespeare
It's common for the classic work of Shakespeare to be re-skinned with contemporary costumes or, in fact, with costumes from any given period.
Shakespeare's own work tends toward the temporally indeterminate, with clocks striking in the age of Julius Caesar, Hamlet's University of Wittenburg, past royal histories recast for contemporary political effect, and many loosely-placed and loosely-dated fantasy scenarios.
The perception of "anachronism" varies widely with historical periods. Some cultural epochs are quite happy to recast the past in their own image. Others seem keen to impose a revived past upon themselves.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachrony