Iknow what you're thinking: Shakespeare, ugh! Is this one of those take-your-medicine, eat-your-spinach, good-for-you stories I should watch but really don't WANT to watch?

Well, fear not! Ira Glass, creator and host of the popular public radio program "This American Life," has felt your pain since high school. "It was hard to read in school," Glass said. "It seemed like, Oh, that's what smart people like. I felt, there must be something here."

And then, in 2014, Glass attended a production of "King Lear" in New York's Central Park , starring John Lithgow.

John Lithgow as King Lear in a 2014 Shakespeare in the Park production of the tragedy, in New York's Central Park. Public Theater

After the play, Glass tweeted out: "Shakespeare: not good. No stakes, not relatable. I thin

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