Original sentence: Thus, play directors would emphasize Marxist, Feminist, or, perhaps most popularly, Freudian interpretations of the plays, even as they retained letter-perfect scripts
Edited sentence: The number of analytical approaches became more diverse by the latter part of the century, as critics applied theories such as structuralism, New Historicism, African American studies, queer studies, and literary semiotics to Shakespeare's works.Thus, play directors would emphasize Marxist, feminist, or, perhaps most popularly, Freudian psychoanalytical interpretations of the plays, even as they retained letter-perfect scripts