I want to start reading this guy, any tips for a noob?I'm ESL and never studied him in school, but I've read some English classic from Dickens, Austen and Bronthe sisters, could comprehend them quite well, maybe had to reread some paragraphs from Jane Austen, but otherwise it was enjoyable.For Shakespeare, should I follow a play on YouTube along with the book? I guess I would have to stop a lot to look into the meaning of a lot of the old English stuff.
just read the plays. you'll have to google a few words but that's part of the fun.
Watch a play online first. Get a sense for thw rhythm of speech. It will make it a lot easier to follow.Just keep in mind Shakespeare made up a lot of words, too. There are many words in Shakespeare that native english speakers wont recognize, but usually the context/latin roots give you a good idea.
>>25293445Personally find watching a play or accurate film adaptation helps before I read it. You wont understand every single thing first time, if it really bugs you you can google it, everyone does it so there are always answers.
>>25293445The obscenity in shakespeare is worth remarking on because the obscenity in shakespeare is different in some ways because the obscenity in joyce is or can be seen as epiphanies and part of what that does is problematize the perception of the obscene and epiphanies, for shakespeare the obscene often occupies a different register, for often plays from this time in english literature take an almost anti-representational stance towards representation, everything in shakespeare is framed and contextualized by genres and conventions that have been broken and in shakespeare’s plays there is the exercise of power in addition to the obscenity and that lends some of shakespeare’s verse a revolutionary obscenity a last remark that is the plays focus sometimes gives an upward motion to though
>>25293445Read the more accessible plays starting with "Cardenio" and then "Love's Labours Won".You'll thank me afterward.
Just an update, I read Othello, which after research it was recommended as a good starting point, I read along listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbaZIuVFzVE&t=7397It was a great experience, the acting is fantastic. I read the Wordsworth classics version with some end notes and dictionary, I could comprehend the whole plot, but some of the nuances if the dialogue went over my head, but still it was thoroughly enjoyable.
