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Originally Posted by BookCat
I read them for the story, not to study the poetry of the language, so it's like reading a novel written entirely in dialogue.
This is probably because I spent years studying him through 0 and A level English, then a degree in Lit.  Now I don't understand why others have difficulty.  |
My own first exposure to Shakespeare was through movie versions of his plays. Hamlet & MacBeth primarily. The old black & white versions with Laurence Oliver and Orson Welles that is with Romeo & Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew (both in color) thrown in for good measure. He's still one of the greatest writer's to have ever lived I think.