I find it a bit confusing to read Shakespeare, because firstly the way it's written with rhyme and tempo throws me off. I almost seems distracting to me; sometimes I will find myself not paying much attention to what the characters are saying, rather how it is all said. Also how the characters, especially in movies like A Midsummer Night's Dream, speak so fast, and with all these words that are new to me, I get lost. That's why I am looking forward more to reading Shakespeare's plays, I can go at my own pace and comprehend everything better. One more, slightly less confusing thing is how he may be talking about one thing, and I think he's talking about something else because of the different words used and words that are still used meaning other things. It always surprises me how words we use today mean completely different things in his writing, but I remembered something from the fifth grade...Shakespeare created tons of new phrases that people hadn't ever used before, so who knows, maybe the first people to read his plays got confused as well.
Almost everyone knows at least the basic outline of Romeo and Juliet, I would be surprised to find someone in the US who hadn't at least heard of it. It has inspired tons of stories and movies, the whole tragic love thing. Not that I'm saying it's not a good plot, definitely original(at the time), but to be completely honest: I'm getting sick and tired of Romeo and his Juliet. Sure it may have been a brilliant piece of work, but you can only read, analyze and discuss something so many times before you become just plain bored of it. I have read it over and over from different teachers, done all the projects that they had with it, I know it backwards and inside out. If the choice presented itself, I would have much rather read one of his less mainstream plays.
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