Help please! I am looking for a page where i can find....?

Question

the text of the modern version of the Julius Ceasar play. I am reading the old version and am not understanding it.

Answer 1

nfs.sparknotes.com/julius
caesar/

just go to this sight. it has all the scenes and acts, and has the old version right next to the modern translation, so you can get a better understanding of it.

Answer 2

In high school I had trouble with Paradise Lost. What helped me was first reading the Cliff Notes version and then going back and reading the original poem.

Shakespeare is easier to listen to than read, there are several movie adaptations and I sure at least one audio version on tape or CD you can barrow at the local library.

If you have an acting company or college nearby you might have people available there to help you.

The hard thing about Shakespeare is that you have a great stories wrapped up in the English languages of over 400 years ago. His language is very specific to his time and place. Hidden in it is references, puns, jokes and insider commentary.

Think how students of the future will be mystified when they look back and study something like Hip-Hop culture or text messages.

Once someone asked me about Shakespeare's reference to "a rotten nose". The rotten nose was a comment about suffering the later stages of syphilis. Back then there was a more virulent strain that attacked the cartilage and caused the nose to collapse.

Back then even an un-educated person would understand classical mythology and know at least some Latin, Greek and even Hebrew. Shakespeare was both high brow and very low brow at the same time. Most lines had to do double duty and still be poetic.

Good luck, I hope this helps at least a little.

Answer 3

There really isn't a "modern" version. Most people have trouble reading Shakespeare at first. Take some time. Get a summary to help you at first. It's worth it once you start making the connections yourself. Its not as difficult as it seems.