Commonality.

"The moment that they see there's this commonality of metaphor, subject matter and a love for words, then they realise Shakespeare is not this irrelevant boring guy from 500 years ago that spoke posh," [Kingslee Daley] says.

One of the first things they do in a Hip Hop Shakespeare workshop is a quiz which takes lines from a rap song and a Shakespeare work to see if participants can distinguish between the two.

"Everyone always gets them wrong," he laughs. Even actor Sir Ian McKellen, who is an expert on Shakespeare, sat the test and couldn't tell the difference between some of the raps and rhymes.

"It's about encouraging young people to be inventive, to not think that they have to play by the rules, and you can be an expert with words and make up your own rules.

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