Posted on 02/25/2014 at 01:33 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
You've just never been properly introduced to old Will. I hated Shakespeare with a passion until I had a decent teacher who told us what was going on in the plays. They're full of sexual innuendo, wonderful rude Elizabethan words, murder, and other hijinks. That said, I am not a fan of his comedies. His tragedies and histories are wonderful. King Lear and Henry V are my two favorites, but Othello and Hamlet are great, too. Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth, not so much. The other issue with Shakespeare is that they were never meant to be read by anyone other than the actors playing the parts. They're meant to be watched. If you can find the Masterpiece Theater version of King Lear with Sir Laurence Olivier, I highly recommend it. Also, Kenneth Brannagh's Henry V, which may well be one of my all-time top ten movies. Brannagh did a really good job with Much Ado About Nothing, as well, and like I said, I'm not usually a fan of the comedies.