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<blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 2963158" data-attributes="member: 40370">You know Barsoom, I know what you mean about Shakespeare being a &quot;frightening intellect&quot; at times.There is of course, another side to him (as you also mentioned). Back when I was in my first senior year and I was introduced to him in the &quot;right way&quot; by a wonderful english teacher (via the movie of Hamlet with Laurence Olivier acting) for the first time in my life I heard someone articulating things in words I had always felt deeply but did not have the skill to say. It was a revelation to me, and for the first time I really felt: &quot;I'm not alone in the world ... there are others who have felt and thought the same thing's as I have ... and over 400 years ago! I'm not crazy.&quot;So I personally have a lot of gratitude to Shakespeare, and have continued to study, read, enjoy, and attend stage productions of his works until the present day. There is always more to learn from the master bard. And his use of the Elglish language is masterful. The only one who even comes close (about, of a football field away) in my opinion is Charles Dickens ... but that is another subject, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mycanid, post: 2963158, member: 40370"] You know Barsoom, I know what you mean about Shakespeare being a "frightening intellect" at times. There is of course, another side to him (as you also mentioned). Back when I was in my first senior year and I was introduced to him in the "right way" by a wonderful english teacher (via the movie of Hamlet with Laurence Olivier acting) for the first time in my life I heard someone articulating things in words I had always felt deeply but did not have the skill to say. It was a revelation to me, and for the first time I really felt: "I'm not alone in the world ... there are others who have felt and thought the same thing's as I have ... and over 400 years ago! I'm not crazy." So I personally have a lot of gratitude to Shakespeare, and have continued to study, read, enjoy, and attend stage productions of his works until the present day. There is always more to learn from the master bard. And his use of the Elglish language is masterful. The only one who even comes close (about, of a football field away) in my opinion is Charles Dickens ... but that is another subject, eh? :) [/QUOTE]

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