While reading Romeo & Juliet for another time, (I don't even know how many times I've read it) it was simply familiar. I have an appreciation for Shakespeare, but I am not the type of person to go out of my way to read his plays willingly. In all honesty, the language used in it still confuses me and I get lost trying to understand it that I miss things. I do much better with it when it is discussed and acted out and there is a visual appeal. Personally, that makes it easier for me to understand it. I also believe that the updates and modern twists can help students when reading it in school, I know they helped me. One of the comments screenshot said that students will begin to forget about the original, but that cannot be the case because the original is what is taught, the other versions are just shown to help students comprehend and understand it.
Another one of the comments says that we should leave it the way he read it, but that would end up really boring and confusing and not a lot going on. I think this because I remember in Sandona's Shakespeare class, him talking about how some of the stage directions didn't exist and were added in. Things have been added so it made more sense and so it was interpreted correctly. Also, I don't think anyone wants a real live bear running across the stage while watching The Winter's Tale.
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