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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
This is a false dichotomy, isn't it?
No reason why kids can't be taught Shakespeare and read fantasy stories.
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Precisely the point I was making!
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As for the claims of contemporary fiction being 'sensational'.....has the principal actually even read Shakespeare??? Shakespeare was a playwright and the master of sensationalism to put bums on the seats. Mistresses, ghosts, witches, suicides, assasinations, incest...you name it he employed it.
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Exactly. And does anyone think that plays like "The Tempest" or "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are anything other than fantasies? Just as "Macbeth" is a gore-spattered horror-fest in the best tradition of Hammer Horror (and the little-performed "Titus Andronicus" even more so!)