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Personally I find Shakespere horribly tedious. I could not understand what was going on when we read it in high school without the benifit of the in class discussion. I wish we never had to read any of it.
BUT there are many many people out there who passionatly love Shakespere and without never having had a first experience with it these people may have never fallen in love. I think it is wonderful to be passionate about anything and everything.
The job is high school should be to provide a well rounded experience and that includes all types of literature. From high school I personally loved 1984, not a natural choice for me, and I am sure there are people out there who hated it.
Also the Danes/Dicaprio version on Romeo and Juliet was very good. It had the original language and the whole story. It is good to because I probably appeals to kids better.
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