[ SECRET POST #2433 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2433 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like that you acknowledge that your opinion about this might change. A lot of 18-year-olds, and I mean no disrespect by this, think they've got everything figured out and will never change their mind about anything. You're already smarter than that, which is a damned good thing.

That said, I felt much the same about the Bard at your age; he'd been taught badly in my schools, and I had trouble getting past the language. A while after that, though, I sort of had one of those "click moments" people talk about, and I GOT it.

Shakespeare was just a working writer, a small-time actor and unfaithful husband, who accidentally had a talent he could only barely control. He took old stories and recast them in new forms, combining keenly-observed human emotion with a use of language that is stunning. Not everything of his is brilliant; like a lot of writers, he lost his chops a bit when he got older. But when he was on, nobody could touch him.

I'd echo what some others have said; don't read his work if you can watch it. There's a lot of good stuff, including filmed stage performances, out there to be found. And I'd recommend taking at least one Shakespeare course at college; a good professor might help you find that click moment.