What can I say?  Shakespeare just isn't my cup of tea.  I think he's overrated.  It's a shame that our children are forced to learn this  "literature" in high school English classes.  These are mediocre play scripts at best and had to be corrected due to poor grammar and spelling in the original manuscripts.  Also, even the characters' names were originally spelled inconsistently.  The Folger commentary explains this and some other hard-to-understand phrases and words but fails to explain other phrases and concepts that are anything but clear.  If you really need to understand what in the world is happening in the needlessly wordy scenes, I suggest checking online and on YouTube for the dumbed-down versions before you attempt to trudge through this... um... literature.
What can I say? Shakespeare just isn't my cup of tea. I think he's overrated. It's a shame that our children are forced to learn this  "literature" in high school English classes. These are mediocre play scripts at best and had to be corrected due to poor grammar and spelling in the original manuscripts. Also, even the characters' names were originally spelled inconsistently. The Folger commentary explains this and some other hard-to-understand phrases and words but fails to explain other phrases and concepts that are anything but clear. If you really need to understand what in the world is happening in the needlessly wordy scenes, I suggest checking online and on YouTube for the dumbed-down versions before you attempt to trudge through this... um... literature.