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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It has nothing to do with video games. It has to do with the writing. The story may be good. But it's the writing. It's just not something a lot of people can get into. Shakespeare is like that. The writing is too much of a chore to plow through (for example)
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Ah but at the time that Shakespeare wrote his plays he was using the current vernacular of the people. While I don't imagine they talked in rhyme back then the words that we need a glossary for were common knowledge to the average person on the street at the time his plays were written.