Question b Whilst texts reflect the contexts in which they are made in order to be relevant to their audience, a text

is ultimately judged by its treatment of enduring values and ideas. Enduring values are values that are upheld and highly regarded for long periods of times, that only change with context and time. In Shakespeares Richard III, Shakespeare keeps the values of the Elizabethan period, while trying to perpetuate the Tudor Myth, as to make the Queen look good. While in Looking For Richard Pacino;s 1996 Docu-Drama his aim is to bring Shakespeare and Richard III to a modern audience, as Pacino states Our main goal with this project is to reach an audience the would not normally participate in this kind of language and world. For Pacino to do this in his film he must scrap some of the enduring values and ideas of the Elizabethan Era and replace them with values and ideas of the Cenozoic Era. The problem with this is that we loose meaning in our words, as the Black Pan Handler states We should speak like Shakespeare Because then we would have feeling. In Looking for Richard, Pacinos main aim is to revive Shakespeare, to bring Richard III and Shakespeare to a modern audience, but by doing this Pacino must incorporate values and idea of this era. Values such as Language, Religion, Ideas such as the Divine Right of Kings, and The Great Chain of Being have all been thrown out to be replaced by values and ideas that are used in our day and age. Values that Shakespeare used in the Elizabethan Period/Age, such as Language has changed this can be shown when Kevin Conway states: In a contemporary play, someone says: Hey, you. Go over there, get that thing and bring it to me. That would be the line. Shakespeare says it: Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels and fly like thought from them to me again., this shows that in this era language is not an enduring value, but just a mere way of communication. Religion a value that was upheld in the Elizabethan period, is now not considered as highly regarded. Within religion was the idea of The Divine Right of Kings, it asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God. This enduring idea that was held high for hundreds of years is now taken down. Pacino changed this idea by paralleling it to the modern political system that the way one got power was through lying, and also through being a Machiavellian Politician. As Redgrave states: We know hes as hard as nails, that hes only pretending to be religious Then Pacino states, they canvass like politicians. Complete with lies and innuendo, showing Richards two-faced nature. While in Richard III