Name: シェイクスピアの読み方を紹介！「シェイクスピアの読み方」を紹介します。 (How to Read Shakespeare!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:55:05.000Z
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another episode in my series on Shakespeare,

I'm going to be talking about how to read Shakespeare,

and because of the fact it's written in verse

Shakespeare wasn't really designed to be read,

so it does take a little bit of imagination on our part to work out

what the actors are doing on stage whereas

as to what would be going on with the plot

Tip number one is to find a synopsis of the play

and read that before you actually read the play itself.

A lot of Shakespeare's language is very poetic

and there's a lot of imagery in what he writes

that a lot of these plays were performed outside

and special effects so what audiences were there for was the poetry

and Shakespeare was able to paint a picture for them with his words

but that does mean that when you're trying to work out what's going on sometimes

characters go off on tangents and talk about something else

it might be completely irrelevant to what is actually happening in the plot in very basic terms,

so if you are struggling with Shakespeare's language

or you get to a passage that you really don't understand,

if you have in the back of your mind a basic outline of the plot

you know that as you're reading it if you get lost

you'll be able to find your way again quite easily.

one of the most important ones is to find

there are tons of films, you can go and see

Shakespeare on stage, you can see tv adaptations, film adaptations,

I'm sure there are tons of clips on youtube.

can really do wonders to break down the barriers of language

because they really understand what Shakespeare's words are trying to say

to watch an experienced person read Shakespeare

to the rhythm and cadence of Shakespeare which is very similar,

he tends to write in iambic pentameter and

once you get used to that rhythm of language

it makes it a lot easier for you to hear that in your head when you're reading it alone

not to mention the fact that Shakespeare's themes are absolutely

then watching an adaptation can really help bring these things out.

A fantastic online resources the No Fear Shakespeare project,

are in the public domain and can be found online,

if you type in 'No Fear Shakespeare' you will find a website

On one side of the screen you have the original

text and on the other side you have a modern-day translation

and I find it especially helpful when there are sections of Shakespeare which are prose,

because on this side of the screen you just end up with all of the dick jokes

interestingly, I find it actually a lot easier to understand Shakespeare when he's doing this high imagery kind of poetic parts of his soliloquies

and then when it is just the everyday banter between the servants for example

and No Fear Shakespeare t is very helpful with that.

There's also a ton of analysis of Shakespeare online

if you want to get really deep into the language and what Shakespeare really means,

then you can just type in a specific soliloquy and

I'm going to help you with this reading experience

you can see that most of it is written in verse.

Iambic pentameter is what Shakespeare uses mostly

and that means that they are ten syllable lines

however that is just the way that it's written on the page to keep it in the rhythm of the verse,

if you have a sentence that is longer than ten syllables

then it will get to a certain point and then the sentence will continue on another page

that's how you would read it, or how an actor on stage would actually say the line

so for example here is Juliet. You would not read afraid like this -

What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word with sweet.

So Romeo would were he not Romeo call'd. Retain that dear perfection which he owes.

reading it that you're paying attention to the grammar, to the punctuation

and you're reading the sentences off the line

and you're not thrown by the indents here.

As I've already said another thing that can throw you off  your reading experience is the excessive almost use of imagery.

'But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

Arise fair Sun and kill the envious moon who is already sick and pale with grief that thou, her maid art far more fair than she'

so Romeo is just going off on a tangent here

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