[Aggie Mama]

Personally, I think booklets like Cliff's Notes (haven't seen the Dummies series for Shakespeare) are great. I never used them in school b/c I always had great teachers that explained the text, but to go and read some of his plays as an adult is difficult for me.

Iambic pentameter isn't one of my strong suits, but I still would like to challenge myself to read the classics that I didn't get to read as a student.

[Xenalyte]

Don't ever try reading Shakespeare quietly. Read it aloud, as it was meant. The Bard never wanted us to read to ourselves . . . his plays, like all plays, are for PERFORMING.

[Frank_Discussion]

I've got a set of nicely bound Shakespeare Complete Works, and I break 'em out every couple of years and pick a play to read. It is rather difficult to understand on it's own, to be sure, but I have a nice set of footnotes on each page to fall back on.

The Bard was something revolutionary, and is still unique.

[razorback-bert]

I have been reading "Gravity's Rainbow" since it came out and have finished it yet.

Don't know anyone that has either.