> The language is still beautiful. That's the point. More to the point, the audiences would not increase at all if they were translated into modern terms. But

> The language is still beautiful. That's the point. More to the point, the audiences would not increase at all if they were translated into modern terms. But would student comprehension? We read Shakespeare's plays in high school. I'm willing to accept that maybe I just didn't have a good grasp of any language then, or had a poor theory of mind or undiagnosed autism, but they were completely opaque to me. I just followed the place on the page with my pencil, and read out my lines that were assigned to me with very little understanding. When I read Patrick Stewart's autobiography, I was impressed with what he got out of theatre and Shakespeare's plays, but it was a glimpse into an utterly alien world.