Brush up your Shakespeare
Jan. 1st, 2008 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieI am planning to give up on King Lear and read either something historical (like Richard III) or something funny, like Midsummer's Night's Dream or The Tempest.
When I was a teen and finally read Hamlet and MacBeth and Romeo and Juliet, I felt like I had suddenly been handed a translator. My parents always quoted from those plays and I hadn't known where they were quoting from.
PS. My New International Version of the Bible is a piece of junk. I tried to read this Sunday's reading at the dinner table. The reading from Matthew, I finally found in Luke, and the Bible was missing the book from the Old Testament reading. Bleh. My parents would often read the week's readings before dinner (or have us read them).
When I was a teen and finally read Hamlet and MacBeth and Romeo and Juliet, I felt like I had suddenly been handed a translator. My parents always quoted from those plays and I hadn't known where they were quoting from.
PS. My New International Version of the Bible is a piece of junk. I tried to read this Sunday's reading at the dinner table. The reading from Matthew, I finally found in Luke, and the Bible was missing the book from the Old Testament reading. Bleh. My parents would often read the week's readings before dinner (or have us read them).
