Thread: Should high school students have to read Shakespeare?
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Old 04-02-2011, 12:42 AM   #156
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So in my Jr year in high school I went to see "A Winters Tale" which IMO is one of the easier Shakespeare plays.

I sat next to two foot ball players, during the play they had the following conversation...

"Dude, if I like listen to the play but don't watch it I can understand it or if I watch the play and don't listen."

"Yeah man, I am just watching, I don't understand it when they talk."

*me slumping the chair and hoping to not be spotted with these two*

I think it is getting to the point where Shakespeare's English is really getting into the realm of a different language entirely. English is a still evolving language and seems to be changing very rapidly currently.

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