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Old 11-02-2020, 08:17 AM   #161
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Originally Posted by Logseman View Post
I was fortunate that I went to a school which taught three languages, and with them three literatures (German, Spanish and English). They managed to make us read two books from Max Frisch, both of them horrific (Andorra and Homo Faber), as well as the much more interesting Die Physiker from Dürrenmatt and Der Vorleser the May-December romance that you may know for the Kate Winslet-led Hollywood film The Reader. In the English subject they didn't faff about, and we were given A Midsummer Night's Dream, Of Mice and Men and 1984, which seems fair.
I'm of the mid that Shakespeare is irreverent and should not be forced on kids in school.
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