Sigh.
The original ain't that hard. It helps to hear it, rather than just read it. But I'm weird and just love his wording. He invented a great number of words and phrases that we use all the time, you know.
I do love Shakespeare. Fell in love with him when I was a Senior in high school, but then I loved literature. But for middle or high schoolers who are reading him for the first time, and who may not be very good readers, it helps to kinda know the story in order to make it through the iambic pentameter.