Well as I see it there are two reasons to read Shakespeare:
- To achieve a common education in our literature and culture.
- To enhance reading ability, expand vocabulary, and teach the ability to grasp and analyze the written word.
While a visual presentation may accomplish the first, though in my opinion not as well it reading the play as film is a once through fast paced experience, it does nothing for the second.
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Originally Posted by wodin
Mrs. Hartwig, my high school English teacher made us read Macbeth, then we dissected it line by line in class. Being a typical teenager, I didn’t see the value in it; but as the years progress I have come to value that experience more and more.
However, I still don’t for the life of me understand what I could have possibly gotten out of Beowulf!
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Wodin, you really should give Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney a try. Excellent.
Especially since, if I may assume, you are a LOTR fan.
