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I like some Shakespeare. Admittedly, a lot of his work gets rather tedious.

Have you read Eminescu? I think it is some English version of his poems.

http://www.estcomp.ro/eminescu/popescu.html

Yeah, as Shakespear doesn't give the same favour if you're not an English native, it's hard to understand deeply Eminescu if you're Romanian 🙁. Sad but true!

shylock Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
—Act III, scene I

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In the end it always come to this very simple choice....

I am not mad; I know thee well enough:
Witness this wretched stump, witness these
crimson lines;
Witness these trenches made by grief and care;
Witness the tiring day and heavy night;
Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well
For our proud empress, mighty Tamora.
Is not thy coming for my other hand?