Most of my experience with The Bard has been negative.

We had to read his plays aloud in class with every kid reading a few verses and all of us hating every minute of it because it's so boring when presented that way. There's a special place in hell reserved for out teachers.

Over here in the States I once went to see "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" but the actors got it all wrong because they didn't know where the laughs were so they played the straight lines funny and couldn't understand the funny ones so the stage laughter was bland and forced. I left halfway through.