A Shakespearean Play

For my play I decided to read Richard the Third and found it thoroughly dull and outside my many fields of interest.  As is typical with me I found no interest in this highly revered writer and the content of his play.  Such things appear to be lost on me.  I would like to think I am well educated, but I'm clearly not sophisticated. Maybe a proper study of Shakespeare would reveal what I am missing, but for now I'm happy to be part of the ignorant masses that just don't get it :).