Why do so many actors want to play shakespearean roles?

Question:i will award best answer to the 1st person to list 3 reasons. thanks!

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1) Shakespearean plays are the inspiration for some of the finest works of art of the past five centuries. His talent alone is praised.
2) You can see things as Shakespeare saw things. You can observe his feelings for Richard III (Richard III), his feelings for how folly relationships are (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet), and so many more things. Even more than that, you can see it from a point of view that wasn't paid to make their subject look good.
3) The pure emotion and conflict alone is amazing. The drama, the criss-cross-double-cross of "star-crossed lovers"---everything a modern day soap opera needs. ;-)

1. They are romantic and beautifully written.
2. They are stereotyped.
3. They are extremely difficult to do right with the proper brittish style.

1. The depth of the characters
2. The beauty of the language
3. Their appeal to the audience.

because there for the most part the toughest ones to do and require the most finesse to execute.

and because if you say theatre someone spits out "to be or not to be.."
so its kinda stereotyped

1. in any field, to be the best, you must conquer the most difficult.
2. his characters speak about everyone, to everyone: from royalty to commoners to criminals to heroes.
3.he captures emotions with poetry, which provides actors a depth of character so rarely found