A big reason Shakespeare comes across as boring is that it has often been performed so boringly.
I think very few people can understand the language today. Its rather like listening to people from the North of England talking - you get some very rough idea what is going on, but it isn't fun after about five minutes.
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Biggest waste of high school. And that says a lot. He gets crazy respect because he's old. The iambic pentameter is an impressive feat, but it's also a pretty stupid literary device that I find very distracting. It's like somebody is dribbling a basketball during every play. His storytelling isn't all that imaginative. He took a lot of ideas from others, as the idea of plagiarism wasn't yet a thing.