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Originally Posted by shalym
This is your opinion, it does not hold true for everyone. I truly think it says more about your teacher than about the works. Both of my children enjoy Shakespeare, with A Midsummer Night's Dream being one of my son's favorite books. He was first introduced to it when he was 13 or so, he's 24 now, and he's read it 4 or 5 times now.
Shari
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I find A Midsummer Night's Dream to be one of Shakespeare's most acessible works. That bit with the donkey head made me burst out laughing. And all the Thisbe play. OMG. So funny. I think that's the sign of a great writer--they can do funny and tragic. Jung said something about that--how life is both funny an serious. A genius writer can encompass that. Strugatsky can do that in one book, but they were two writers.
I don't know why some Shakepeare is easier to understand than others. Macbeth is easy too, and maybe the Tempest. I've yet to get my head around Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet takes some work, but it is worth. There is nothing else like it. But it's so dark...