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If you find Shakespeare hard to penetrate, I recommend the Barron's versions called either Simply Shakespeare or Shakespeare Made Easy (not to be confused with the study notes of the same name). These have the original text and the modern text side by side.
The only down side is without annotations, you miss a lot of the historical references.
For beginners, I recommend A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is very funny and easy to get into. Macbeth is pretty easy to. Hamlet is the best, but possibly hard... I don't know why, but 12th Night left me bored.
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