Friends, reading Shakespeare is no joke. It’s been a while since I last tried, and I’d hoped to do better, but I think I understood about half of that play. Thankfully I already knew most of the plot. It’s not so much a question of vocabulary as one of syntax. I was glad, though, to encounter here and there famous quotes that were now in context.

I won’t stop trying to read Shakespeare, especially since next year I’m going to see The Tempest at the theatre and even though it’ll be in French, I want to reacquaint myself with the original (it’s been years since I first read it).