Thoughts on Christian Education

So Shakespeare sounds daunting to you? You can’t seem to get into Romeo and Juliet, King Lear , or Hamlet ? I know: that Elizabethan language is just too much to handle, right? If you’ve ever had a hard time enjoying Shakespeare, why not try a few of these hints?  First, read a narrative of the play in Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare . The Lambs retold Shakespeare’s tales in forms of stories back in the 1800s. Their children’s classic can assist you in getting an overview of the play you study before you delve into it headlong.  Second, check out an audio recording. Elizabethan English varies greatly from American English of the twenty-first century, but when you hear professional actors reading lines that look daunting on paper, it’s much easier to understand what the Old Bard meant. Remember: Shakespeare’s plays were intended to be performed by actors, not to be “waded through” as some type of boring matter in a literature book. An audio recording brings thes