[ SECRET POST #2433 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2433 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

You don't have to like Shakespeare. Plenty of my lecturers at university weren't fond of Shakespeare - they knew how culturally important his works have been but didn't put them on a pedestal. It can be frustrating disliking something that appears to be universally lauded as brilliant, but if anyone says that you have to like Shakespeare to be a writer they're frankly an idiot.

That said, it appears that you're just trying to read the plays and that's not the best way to experience Shakespeare. (his sonnets are of course another matter) His plays were meant to be performed, and you might find yourself more engaged if you watched a film adaptation or performance of one of them. You might not enjoy it at all, but the plays are far easier to follow on the stage itself. Furthermore, if you do want to read the play itself afterwards you absolutely need to have an annotated edition. Language has evolved so much since Shakespeare was alive and Shakespeare also references things that would be obvious to his contemporary audience but is alien to us, so it's no wonder that you've had to look things up. An annotated edition means that if you don't understand a word or phrase you can find a definition immediately, as well as showing layers of meaning that aren't immediately apparent to someone without Shakespeare's cultural context. Shakespeare takes some effort to understand, and it's perfectly fine if you want to use that effort for other things.

Basically, no one understands Shakespeare by merely reading the plays - performances and annotations go a long way. It can be frustrating. You might find it worth it or you might not, and that's okay. All art is subjective, after all.