Thread: Should high school students have to read Shakespeare?
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Old 03-25-2011, 01:08 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
A thousand times, this.

Shakespeare's humor and drama isn't opaque to kids because the language is different (although that's part of it) but because Shakespeare dealt with adult themes--which is not a euphemism for "sex." The sex part, the kids tend to understand; it's why Midsummer Night's Dream is popular for high school productions. But family politics, royal negotiations, arranged marriages, banking contracts... most modern kids have no context for these, even if they could understand the flowery language and the bits of archaic vocabulary.
You mean you didn't play the banker and the negotiator when you where a kid? You didn't pretend to be in an arranged marriage with your childhood sweetheart?
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