Original Paragraph:
There was a law in the city of Athens, which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daghters to whomsoever they pleased: for upon a daughter's refusing to marry the man her father had chosen to be her husband, the father was empowered by this law to cause her to be put to death; but as fathers do not often desire the death of their own daughters, even though they do happen to prove a little refractory, this law was seldom or never put in execution, though perhaps the young ladies of that city were not unfrequently threatened by their parents with the terrors of it.
Now I am going to do an evaluation of this paragraph:
I think that this is a very good paragraph in that it explains the law, but it has a VERY long run-on sentence in explaining the law. It makes me run out of breath just readig it. I think that Shakespeare needs to learn to break up his sentences a little better.
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