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Lankiveil posted:Middle English is difficult for most native speakers of English too. It makes a lot more sense watching it performed; a lot of the disdain for Shakespeare IMHO comes from making kids learn it through reading rather than seeing it performed. Try Chauser.
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I've never had too much trouble with it all at uni, but I'm Dutch and both my parents are Frisian (which I don't speak but understand pretty much fluently) so it always kind of felt like cheating. I'm just always amused by people saying Shakespeare's English is too old to make sense of. Anyway. Zesty Mordant posted:Realizing how inventive staging could influence Shakespeare is what really blew it open for me. I took a Shakespeare class as an elective as an undergrad and it was completely fascinating. The duel between Hal and Hotspur is a really good one to play around with-- we read the scene and discussed it for a while, and then watched some stage versions of it. In one (I think it went like this) Hal disarmed Hotspur, let him reach for his sword, and then killed him as soon as he was armed again. Two things come to mind: I saw a production of Hamlet by the Globe company (I think) whose Polonius was a bit goofy and hilarious, clumsy at times and generally a well meaning fool, which was a nice change and really, really well done. The second is from the final season of the HBO series Oz, in which they do a production of MacBeth. They changed to witches to be judges, which was very appropriate given the context of the show.
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