No

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  by 'Rick Gray

  Created on: August 04, 2010   Last Updated: September 18, 2010

  G. K. Chesterton, the British novelist, Christian apologist and wit, once said: " The Christian

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  by Taina Patmore

  Created on: June 05, 2009   Last Updated: June 07, 2009

  The fact that there is a question as to whether or not Shakespeare's writing is comprehensible saddens

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  by Dikran Tulaine

  Created on: October 30, 2010   Last Updated: November 01, 2010

  I have played a lot of Shakespeare.  And in playing it one should understand what one is saying. 

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  by Ann Palmieri

  Created on: February 18, 2008   Last Updated: January 18, 2012

  "Out! Out damn spot!" Those words ring true today as well as they did in the 1600s. Some may have a

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  by Peter Sinclair

  Created on: April 09, 2009

  To say that Shakespeare's writing is incomprehensible is to say that the English language is incomprehensible.

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  by Cynthia Lapena

  Created on: March 14, 2008

  Would we even be asking this question if Shakespeare's writing were truly incomprehensible?

  Consider

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  by Thomas Plante

  Created on: November 05, 2010

  Anyone who thinks William Shakespeare's writing is incomprehensible has clearly not spent enough time

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  by Lindsay Price

  Created on: March 25, 2009

  Hard? Yes.
  Incomprehensible? No.

  It takes a little work, a lot of practice and a really good dictionary

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  by Christopher O'Curnain

  Created on: March 25, 2010

  Shakespeare is a famous writer, from years past, his works have stood the test of time, great stories

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  by Jay O'Toole

  Created on: February 18, 2011   Last Updated: February 22, 2011

  William Shakespeare is one of the most understandable of the early English writers.

  The language of

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  by Meagan Kane

  Created on: April 03, 2011

  Short answer? No.

  Long answer? No, and here's why:

  When Shakespeare wrote, he wasn't attempting to write

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  by Janet Grischy

  Created on: April 07, 2009   Last Updated: October 22, 2010

  Those who consider Shakespeare's writing incomprehensible have not considered all the dialects that

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  by Carol Relf Kondrat

  Created on: September 08, 2009

  Absolutely not. Shakespeare's writing is just a more flowery rendition of the English language. He used

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  by Ian Hardy

  Created on: March 06, 2009   Last Updated: March 07, 2009

  Were Shakespeare incomprehensible, he'd have been forgotten four hundred years ago. Perhaps, to a modern

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  by Mayv 'SpearBourne' Amaia

  Created on: July 20, 2010   Last Updated: July 31, 2010

  The only reason, in my mind, that modern audiences find the Bard's writing difficult to understand is

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  by HM Wilson

  Created on: July 09, 2008   Last Updated: September 16, 2011

  The question has been posed as to whether the writing of William Shakespeare is incomprehensible. The

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  by Darren Greetham

  Created on: July 24, 2010

  Are the words of William Shakespeare incomprehensible? No, they are the greatest words written in the

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  by Ray Cook

  Created on: March 30, 2008   Last Updated: August 04, 2008

  Clearly, for many people, Shakespeare's writing is not incomprehensible. If you are a student of English

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  by Lucie Shores

  Created on: July 12, 2010   Last Updated: September 07, 2010

  Like unfamiliar food, when badly prepared or served, let's say  "out of context" we often don't

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  by Joseph Broadworth

  Created on: March 11, 2009   Last Updated: July 23, 2009

  I believe all of us have had the same experience - sitting, bored silly, with a text of some Shakespeare