Shakespeare's work in a version of Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC)

This bachelor thesis deals with an abbreviated version of 37 plays by William Shakespeare which is presented by The Reduced Shakespeare Company as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). At first, the thesis discusses terms culture, pop culture and their overlaps. The second chapter focuses on origins and activities of RSC and the third chapter sums up the history of abbreviating of Shakespeare's plays. The fourth chapter is devoted to up-to-dateness of Shakespeare's plays, then it describes the staging practice in the Elizabethan era and it ends with the analysis of RSC's approach to Shakespeare's texts. The fifth chapter deals with the problems of translating the play into Czech and its domestication in Czech environment. The last chapter illustrates another overlaps of Shakespeare's plays into Czech environment