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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
I doubt that would work. They'll look up a quick summary on-line, see that it's a PLAY, nothing interesting or x-rated, in old English that they'd have to work at reading, no less, and it'd be forgotten as quickly as it caught their attention.
They're not stupid. Not when they have tons of other books on-line, including KU and libraries, and a massive amount of fanfic. Which they not only read, but write.
They're not as easily tricked into anything anymore.
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Perhaps. However, the current state of affairs has certainly not worked. Quite the opposite. So time to try something different.
Tell people they're just too stupid to understand/appreciate such deified works and they might just seek to prove otherwise. Or they might just seek to prove how modern equivalents are superior. In any case, they would have to have read the former to prove the latter.
However, in keeping with your thoughts about the ingenuity of modern readers, they might by accident or design discover The Graphic Canon and so be introduced and perhaps inspired to learn more about some of the "Classics" which underlie much of our literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graphic_Canon