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Old 09-02-2020, 01:54 AM   #107
maddz
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The only films I recall watching at school were The War Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game), Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, and possibly Olivier's Hamlet or Henry V (although the Oliviers I may have seen on TV). There was also some anti-abortion documentary (not unsurprising, I had a Catholic education).

School was responsible for my aversion to Victorian writers; one of my set books was Jane Eyre, which I loathed (along with A Tale of Two Cities), but I often re-read Pride and Prejudice (I still have the text we used). On the other hand, I still enjoy Shakespeare - our set plays were Romeo and Juliet which I disliked (too soppy), The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.

Let's put it this way, school didn't need to instil a love of reading in me - that was apparent from a very early age.

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