I hated this book. ducks behind a bush as Official Shakespeare Fanclub come running down the road in medieval costume and bow and arrow (or whatever they used to kill eachother with back in “ye olde daye”. I have to be brutally honest here but maybe it’s to be expected seeing as I’m not English (british, whatever you like), I do not and have not attended a public school, I don’t have caviar or wine with my meals and I don’t normally read by the fire with slipper wearing feet resting on a footstool with a Hugh Hefner gown on (please bear in mind, I would not be wearing this last garment anyways seeing as I am female). I didn’t read it by choice. It was for school and like finishing the book wasn’t enough I now have to go through the unbearable process of analysing these frankly predictable and some being weak, characters. I am telling you, I would have an easier time translating german and I don’t even study german but at least there are dictionaries and online translating facilities for that. I would like to know what “beseech” means, a word that I have encountered on numerous occassions throughout reading this book but where can I go to find it’s literal meaning. I’m almost certain it is no longer listed in the Collins English Dictionary but do let me check again to be sure…wow that thing gathered a lot of dust and AHA! I have been proved right – a rare occurence for me I must say especially seeing as I actually never did look up “beseech” in the dictionary before but now you see where I’m coming from (I hope) unless you fit the description of everything I am not in my brief introduction. Can I just say now that I don’t actually ever talk like this…or write like this, or even think like this – it’s hard enough for me to form thoughts into sentences most of the time. Maybe I should consider reading more Shakespeare as it seems that when I am raving on about something that I do like, it nearly always sounds like a load of waffle. So could it be that my dislike of Shakespeare’s work may actually be of benefit and make me sound that slightly bit more educated! Well who would have thought it? I’m baffled!!!
