Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

The first time I read anything written by William Shakespeare, I was puzzled. Why, I wondered, does anybody read this stuff? After all, these plays are 400 years old, written in a time and culture wholly different from our own. I read one play my teacher told me was a comedy, and I found nothing about it a bit funny. Another play was supposedly a tragedy, but I could barely figure out the basic plot. Truth be told, most of the time I had virtually no idea what was going on and no interest in figuring it out.