Happy belated birthday to the Bard this week…and great post here, thank you Book Fifty! 🙂
Today is Shakespeare’s birthday, so to celebrate I thought I’d share another post in my Back to Basics series. Last time our focus was on reading and understanding poetry, and today we’re taking things one step farther by focusing on the man, the myth, the legend: William Shakespeare.
Today’s post starts with some overall tips for better understanding the Bard, and I’ll close things out by offering you my very own patent-pending Shakespeare 101 curriculum–five plays to read to increase your overall understanding of Shakespeare and his influence on culture. I hope that this post will give you an easy, stress-free way to enjoy some of the best that English literature has to offer. Let’s get started!
Shakespeare Basics
In order to read and understand Shakespeare, there are four basic things you need to know.
1. Shakespeare’s English is modern English: This sounds insane, because today we don’t speak…
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