People who understand Shakespeare

I love a person who gets Shakespeare. My friend Jason says Shakespeare is so good because a lot of very smart people understand him in very different ways. I like seeing so many correct intrepretations, this means that the playwright knows some deep mysteries of the Human Element. I just watched a brilliant Charlie Rose interview with Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino, the two most improbable actors to play together in Merchant of Venice. Pacino is the jew, no less! Jason being a jew was amazed at this. The film itself is supposed to be spectacular, as they read the dialog very naturally, is if it were everyday speech. Pacino had a great answer to why Shakespeare was so brilliant: "You just had to be there," simple, but Pacino nailed that particular question perfectly. Jeremy came back with a nice observation that no one spoke in Iambic Pantemeter in 16th century England any more than they do today, yet people knew in Shakespeare's time that he was genius. His plays still entertained.

Found this site with a great explanation of iambic pantemeter.