It helps a great deal to hear it spoken properly and get the nuance and flow. Back in the dark ages before books on tape and CDs when I was still in high school and had to read it all at gunpoint, I found that I could go to the local library and get the LP versions of the Royal Shakespeare Company and listen to them on the earphones while I followed along in the book. Apparently, none of the other kids caught on, because the boxed sets of LPs were always in when I wanted them. It all came together and I came to love Shakespeare, desipte the teachers trying to get us to understand it by reading it aloud in the classrooms ourselves. I believe Caedmon offers all these as CDs and I own a couple, but, still having a working turntable, when the library system started selling off all their old LPs, I bought up all the Shakespeare ones I could find at dirt cheap prices out of a combination of sentiment and thanks.