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Question: How can u understand shakespeare!?!?!? especially Macbeth!?
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look up no fear shakespeare on the internet!.!.!. they have a whole bunch for a lot of plays, and i know there's one for macbeth!. all it is is the shakespeare text on one side and then an english translation on the right side!. im reading much ado about nothing in leap right now and it is so helpful! its also nice to have your own copy so you can annotate if you want to!.!.!. and if your teacher asks what something means you can pretend to be smart and just read off the translated side! (thats what i do) lolWww@QuestionHome@Com

Best way is to read it out loud!. Believe it or not, Shakespeare made up a bunch of the words in the plays -- a lot of words we use today were invented by him!. So his audience was hearing them for the first time, too!. He used the words he used because they "worked" for the poetry!.

So when you read it out loud you get to hear the plays the way they were written, and they actually make a lot more sense!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Read a lot of it!. Practice makes perfect!. Try and get the gist of it by reading "No Fear Shakespeare" books, but try to ween yourself off them little by little!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You firstly need to understand medieval English
otherwise you're wasting your precious time!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Doth though not wish to gander up my frock!?Www@QuestionHome@Com