My advice is…don’t. Shakespeare, and all theater, really, is meant to be seen, not read.

A lot of people complain that Shakespeare is boring and lifeless if read today, because their high school English teacher made them read it like a book. Mine put on tapes so that we could read along with actors giving life to the characters, or that we would read it out loud ourselves and give our own spin to the characters.

Take it from someone who tried to read Hamlet rather than just watch a performance of it…don’t.