Just bought this, my question is How to appreciate Shakespeare as a ESL? Should I read the dialogues in my mind or just speak it out aloud changing tones for character. It's not that my English is bad, it's just that I haven't read classical English works apart from few of his plays like as you like it or much ado about nothing.
>>25175787Watch the plays, read annotated versions, pretend to like it. That's the English way.
>>25175787Shakespeare is a difficult writer. The better your grasp of English, the more you dig into him, the better he becomes. Just like Melville/Joyce for novels. I recommend starting with something easier. Dickens, Homer in translation, Milton once you feel confident. Shakespeare's English is very idiosyncratic, and you won't catch that unless you're an experienced reader.If you still feel like jumping into him, watch the plays, listen to the monologues, read it out loud. And remember to enjoy yourself, Shakespeare loves a good pun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JF9Gq5tL4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn955417swYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImVoqdZPPak
>>25176299it can't be that difficult if we read it in the 9th grade.
Oh god man you chose the worst edition to buy.This is a physically well made edition but the problem is that it contains literally no notes which most native english speakers need to understand him and ESLs even more so.The individual Arden editions are better.
>>25176299I loved moby dick if that helps, especially ahab's prose but that feels very basic in comparison to Shakespearean prose .
>>25175787>How to appreciate Shakespeare as a ESLwatch the romeo and juliet movie where the lines come from the book, understand that early modern english is modern english, move on to reading the kjv
