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From bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to Six Minute English.
I'm Finn.
And I'm Neil.
Hello.
Today we're talking about Shakespeare.
Oh yes.
To be or not to be.
That is the question.
Whether it is nobler in the moment.
OK, thank you.
Thank you very much, Finn.
But what does that famous Shakespeare line actually mean, Finn?
Yeah, well, it's quite hard to explain actually.
The English and Shakespeare's work is quite difficult.
Well, a Shakespeare festival in Oregon in the United States wants to change all of that.
They want to pay writers, they want to commission what they call translations of Shakespeare's plays.
Now, we usually use the word translation, of course,