TheSongOfTheStars wrote:Cool!
Reading Shakespeare can be difficult, when I was taking a class on his plays I had to have an audio book to listen to while I read the plays in book form. How'd you get into playwriting btw? Was it the classes or did you decide to take the classes because you already liked writing?
Also is there anything particular you'd recommend for reading to get a good grasp on the language?
Sorry if this is too many questions, I've just always enjoyed listening to older forms of English and want to get a better idea of how it sounds.
I've basically always done all kinds of writing, and I won a national award for a play I wrote in high school; because I'm also a Theatre major, I had to take playwriting as a course anyway, and I was just better prepared/enjoyed it more than I would have. There are some great resources online that explain Renaissance-era language structure and how English evolved; I also highly recommend studying a little Latin just because that's where the Romance languages spawned from and it makes things easier to connect. Really the best thing you can do is just keep reading pieces from that era and researching on your own! Just takes immersion