Quote Originally Posted by littlelostboy
Very true. Plays are plays, they are meant to be perform, that's why its so tedious just to read it. Furthermore, Shakespeare did not just wrote in a language that the commoners could not understand, he wrote in English! At that time, the noble class and the royals still used French and Latin but Shakespeare used English so that the commoners could appreciate the plays as well.
Thats a myth, everyone spoke English by then.

I'm sorry but Shakespeare was not the great genius he is portrayed as, if he even existed. He was prolific, he wrote lots of plays and the quality varries greatly.

That said transaltion shouldn't be in quotation marks and for educational purposes it shouldn't be done because you will lose much of the meaning in the language, at which point you just have the plot. Lets be honest here the plots aren't always great.

Another thing I dislike about him is the way he treats history, Macbeth was one of Scotland's greatest kings, infact you have to turn the plot on its head to work out what actually happened.