Shakespeare
I managed to get a copy of all Shakespeare’s work in one book at the secondhand book store last week. It’s in English and it seems to be in a decent state, especially for the price I managed to get it for; €3.50 (convert?)
Of course everyone is familiar with his work and when I saw it I just had to have it, even if it was just to have it in my book collection. Needles to say that, being the book addict that I am, already started reading in it.
It’s in old English and even though that makes it difficult to read, it also makes it a lot of fun to do so. It will take me a while before I finish it but that’s OK, at least by then I will finally be able to say I read it.
Did you ever read any of Shakespeare’s work?
Plugged: Also, Ilse, I won’t do the tag thing, I already did the same one thank to Amber and I just generally don’t do them to begin with.
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I’ve read Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, and a Midsummer Nights Dream. I’m not really a fan of Shakespear though, to be perfectly honest.
While I enjoy studying Shakespeare formally (in an academic situation), it’s really not the type of thing I’ll pull out and read for the sake of it. I think the world of Shakespeare is just so far removed from the world of today that you really need to learn the background and nuances of each story to appreciate it…you can’t really do that by yourself unless you’re willing to check an extra twenty books out of the library! 
For me it’s just the fun of reading it as a script in really old English that is a real challenge by itself for me since English isn’t my mother tongue
I had to study Shakespeare in English last year! I had to study Romeo and Juliet, which was really, really boring. Apparently Julius Caesar used to be the play on the curriculum, but then the curriculum deciders decided that teenagers wanted to read a story about morons falling in love, since it’s so true to life and all that. The only fun part was mocking it. And mocking it. And mocking it.
The thing with Shakespeare is that I don’t understand why we should have to study it in school. He was a talented writer, sure, but there’ve been other talented writers in the last 400 years. Other talented writers who had time to actually edit their work. I’m sure Shakespeare would have preferred people reading his plays in their own time for their own enjoyment, too.
You mean Shakespearian, right?
I studied Macbeth for my English last year, and I’m currently studying Romeo and Juliet.
I had a little bit of a Midsummer’s Nights Dream in primary school though.
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I enjoyed Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” We had a contest (we had to do a play by group) in our Literature class back in college. We picked the part when they were in the tavern plotting to kill…ugh. I can’t remember @_@ hehe…but we won. That was the first time I really got to appreciate Shakespeare’s work. I was fed up with “Romeo and Juliet” and I guess that made me biased. And his work is a bit hard to read. I can’t believe that back in his day, the language he used was actually considered slang! ^_^;;