Performance Review The 1995 release of the film "Clueless", based on Jane Austen's "Emma", saw a new trend emerge in Hollywood. By adapting classic literary texts into modern "Teen Dramas", the film industry and those working in education might argue that such films allow young people to understand plays and novels written hundreds of years ago. Indeed, the work of Shakespeare and others is made accessible to young people, and in a world where reading is now perhaps considered secondary, many may appreciate the fact that classic stories are still presented and appreciated in this ever-changing society and progress. As Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt argue: “…this shift to a cultural studies approach opens up new possibilities for a kind of Shakespearean criticism with broader appeal to a non-academic audience (which presupposes, of course, that the academic Shakespearean necessarily wants such a popular audience). [1]It could be argued that this new trend of making Shakespeare accessible to teenagers through films is simply a money-making commodity. In fact, many of these adaptations pay little respect to the screenplay on which they are supposedly based. However, since the film's slogan defines itself, for example, as: "an exceptionally intelligent and powerful contemporary adaptation",[2] young people, fearing to face the original, flock to cinemas replacing the film text with the literary one assuming a satisfactory understanding. . However, when one is fortunate enough to study a literary text in its entirety, it becomes clear that these supposed reworkings neglect to convey many of the details present in the original. And perhaps, the...... middle of the paper......4. Internet.http://sunflower.signet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/othello_b.htm.12/3/05[11] Shakespeare, W. Othello. Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare, 2000.Heinemann. P 288[12] AC Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy 1904. Internet.http://sunflower.signet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/othello_b.htm.12/3/05[13] AC Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy 1904. Internet.http://sunflower.signet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/othello_b.htm[14] Shakespeare, W. Othello. Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare, 2000.Heinemann. P59.[15] Shakespeare, W. Othello. Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare, 2000.Heinemann. p19[16] [16] Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. Shakespeare the Movie II: dissemination of plays on film, TV, video and DVD. Routledge, 2003.P96-97. Essay by Barbara Hodgdon. '. Racing Othello.’