Julian Fellowes believes not everyone can understand Shakespeare, do you?

Julian Fellowes caused controversy recently after saying that not everyone has the ability to understand Shakespeare's language.

Whilst promoting his new film Romeo and Juliet he told the BBC "When people say we should have filmed the original, I don't attack them for that point of view, but to see the original in its absolutely unchanged form, you require a kind of Shakespearian scholarship and you need to understand the language and analyse it and so on."

He went on: "I can do that because I had a very expensive education, I went to Cambridge. Not everyone did that and there are plenty of perfectly intelligent people out there who have not been trained in Shakespeare's language choices."

He has since been criticised for his comments. According to The Guardian, actor Janet Suzman called his remarks "patent piffle". Shakespeare's Globe's Fiona Banks responded: "Shakespeare's for everybody. We can all understand him."

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