Shakespeare is much more difficult to read than the King James Bible. The King James Bible was created by scholars over a period of seven years in the early 1600s. Groups of men studied in Hebrew and Greek combed over the original Hebrew and Greek Bibles in addition to three of the most common English Bibles of the time. Laboriously, they translated one part of the Bible at a time and then send this part around to be approved by the other groups of scholars residing at universities across England. In the end, their authorized version of the Bible, elegant while simple and true to its roots, influenced the English language more than any other piece of literature in history. On the other hand, although Shakespeare was a brilliant playwright, he always tried to use the English language to its fullest. This means that his sentences sound poetic but take hours to decipher because they are flowery. Metaphors and similes abound, which tie his sentences into a new Gordian Knot that takes forever to loosen. Reading Shakespeare is similar to being lost in a room that is so full of decor and furniture that there is no inch of wall nor floor left bare, hiding the exit. I would take the King James Bible over Shakespeare any day.