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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
Shakespeare must be read in the original to be appreciated fully. Some writers can be translated or modernized with no great loss. Not so Shakespeare. I recall reading sections where he has three different metaphors going at once. And we've lost alot of the meaning.
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Perhaps, but I'm not going to read him anymore. Or any other classics. I read trashy genre fiction these days and have no hankering for anything heavier.