Dumbing down Shakespeare

[BDC]

English is killed in schools. Shakespeare should be performed, not read out loud and every line analysed. I'm willing to bet that he genuinely didn't mean anything by a lot of it.

Asimov hated being analysed so much he wrote a story where a time-travelling Shakespeare fails a course on his owns books.

[Lemur]

Lear, baby. Best play ever written.

And I'm with Robert Graves on the whole subject of Big Bill Shakespeare:

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he's very good.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Lear gets my vote too. It's really rather embarrassing that, even though it's been 400 or so years, it still hasn't been topped.