I enjoyed the play more than the rest of Shakespeare’s works, mostly because I had never read it before. I was forced to read plays like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth almost every year throughout elementary, middle and high school. After a while, reading the same things over and over gets boring. I thought the story was interesting, but again that’s mostly because I had never been exposed to the plot. I went into reading this completely blind, unlike Shakespeare’s other plays. Thats because plays like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth are always getting new adaptations, so it’s difficult for me to feel sad about the tragic story when I have already seen the same plot dozens of times. For example, by the time I had actually read Romeo and Juliet for the first time I already knew Juliet and Romeo died in the end, so it wasn’t very impactful.

The language was difficult, but it was the same as every other Shakespeare play, I have read. Overall, while I liked the story more than his other plays, the actual reading part was the same.