Sir Patrick Stewart: “You can’t harm Shakespeare”
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Even if most of the Austin Comic Con attendees wouldn’t classify themselves as Shakespeare aficionados, Sir Patrick spoke with such passion and clarity that I started to feel like a Shakespeare scholar myself. Sir Patrick even had advice for actors and readers of the Bard who might be struggling to understand the text.
“Look, you can’t harm Shakespeare,” he assured the audience. “Do whatever you like with it. And one of the great things to do with Shakespeare, a great exercise, is to put it in your own words. Have the speech in your head and then rewrite it… and articulate it. It is one of the very best exercises for learning Shakespeare is not verbose, and overcomplicated — he’s actually incredibly precise and exact.”