What is /lit/'s opinion about reading Shakespeare's plays while referring to modern english whenever you don't understand something?
>>8040909
If you're some ghetto nigger who just needs to read it for the sake of getting through Highschool then I don't see any issue
>>8040909
it's idiotic as fuck
if you're gonna eat your vegetables at least use some fucking salt and pepper
>>8040909
Pretty much all of Shakespeare's English was entirely natural to me. At worst, the meanings could be easily deduced; by context and so forth.
If this wasn't the case for you, get your head in the fucking dunce hat.
I've got the Norton edition and it provides definitions in the margin for obscure words, or words that have changed meaning. Works great.