I love Shakespeare. Why don't I read more of him? Right at this very moment, at 9:34 central standard time on March 29, 2010 I'd gladly admit to Shakespeare being my favorite poet/playwright/author/muse of all time.
"It is the cause, it is the cause my soul." Okay. Enough hackneyed quotation. I ought to break open my Shakespeare anthology and do some reading, but it's so time intensive; I like to study the character list at the beginning for a while, so I have a gist for who is who before the play begins. And that's an hour. Then the play, which is not hard reading, once you get into the Elizabethan language, but Shakespeare's one of those authors you can't skim. Well, you can, but you're just a pontificating ignoramus if you do it. So don't. Savor the lines. Iambic or blank.
