I thought the 8.2% IPA to Bud Light analogy was apt, although perhaps not for the same reasons as the guy who made it. A lot of people drink Bud Light because it&#x27;s cheap and accessible and gets the job done. Saying &quot;just drink the best beer&quot; is sort of a &quot;let them eat cake line&quot;. In the context of Shakespeare the reality is you need a more readable modern translation for most of his plays or lots and lots of people simply won&#x27;t read them (except when they have to for school and even there it&#x27;s straight for the tl;dr cliff notes).<p>I consider myself fairly well schooled and read and don&#x27;t dislike Shakespeare.  However, despite going through the high school forced march of one Shakespeare a semester&#x2F;year and having read some plays solely out of interest ... I&#x27;ve read (and reread) significantly more Ibsen plays than those of Shakespeare. It&#x27;s true they&#x27;re shorter and prose and Ibsen&#x27;s best work is spectacular (well with a good translation) but still if Shakespeare is this shining light on a hill why aren&#x27;t more people reading him in English?