Shakespeare Texts

1) How are they the same today?
Scripts today are more audience/ camera/ stage friendly rather than actor friendly. Lots of scripts today are more about the words for the people more about the words for the actor. It is harder for an actor to find the meaning in a piece and memorize it because Shakespeare made his scripts memorization/ verbalization/ pace friendly.

2) How are they different from Shakespeare's time?
They are more directed at the audience than the actor.

3) Suggest a way to perform one of the ages to show both the similarities and the differences (between Shakespeare's time and today) without changing the actual text.
The meanings of words have most likely changed in some way from Shakespeare's time and the actions that go with those word are definitely interpreted differently by an actor. We can not jump into the skin of someone living in the 14 or 15 hundreds because we don't know what it was like. So presumably we can't possibly preform the same way as the actors in Shakespeare's time did but we can make it 21st century absorbable. Just preform and display things people today understand through your interpretation of the old text.