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Anything by Shakespeare. They are such a chore to read.

What about the sonnets? I think they're a lot more readable than the plays (which were never meant to be read in the first place.)

I'll read them but I don't enjoy them. I certainly won't seek them out. I had to memorize several poems for school once and the sonnets were the hardest to memorize.

at the risk of sounding wicked condescending, i think a lot of people who find shakespeare a chore suffered from bad teachers/first exposures. if you can see shakespeare performed with all the intended liveliness, and if you have a teacher willing to acknowledge that to modern americans shakespeare is basically writing in a different dialect if not language, you can come away, usually, with an appreciation--if not ardent love--for a lot of what he did

I'll read them if I get one of the copies with modern English on one side. Otherwise, I get no enjoyment out of reading something and then having to spend 10 minutes trying to suss out the meaning.

I also dislike reading most poetry for the same reason. And I had a great teacher (who was very challenging). When he heard I disliked poetry, we spent a every morning for a whole semester dissecting a poem. -__-

Edited 2015-07-07 23:40 (UTC)

Agreed. I was completely bored by it in middle school. Made worse by the fact that the teacher insisted on making us read Midsummer Night's Dream, which is, uh, not relevant to the interests of a pre-teen boy.

I didn't really develop an appreciation for Shakespeare until college.

How interesting. I would have honestly thought that of all Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream would have the most appeal for a pre-teen boy. It's probably better to see it actually staged than try to read it at that age, though.

Well, they were never meant to be read so much as seen...

I agree that there's a lot of value to seeing them, but I think you can also get a lot out of reading them, given the proper structure and context. I think people go a little too far sometimes on the "You have to see Shakespeare live" thing - I think, on the one hand, there's things you can get out of reading it, and on the other hand, a lot of the same barriers also exist on the page anyway.

I've seen film versions. I enjoy the plot usually but it can be a challenge for me to suss out the dialogue. And if I can't, I just get frustrated. I don't know why I have such a problem with his style of writing because I've certainly read and enjoyed older material (Dante's Inferno and The Odyssey to name a couple).

Well, I assume you read the Inferno and the Odyssey in modern translations, right? So maybe it's just a difficulty with the vocabulary, rhythm, and structure of the language of the period?

Neither were modern translations (they were in English obviously). The copy of Inferno I had did have like 3 pages of footnotes at the end of each chapter explaining certain things. Man, that was such an awesome copy of that book. I wish I still had it.

Sort of OT, but if I'm reading Shakespeare I like to listen to this.

Agree. The problem for me is that I just don't care about any of the characters.

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