It did make sense as an approach though. It frustrates me that Shakespeare is generally taught as if it were some kind of wholly cerebral performance for intellectuals. It never was! Shakespeare's plays were vulgar entertainment for the masses. If they aren't taught that way, there's almost no point teaching them at all. If the principals and unions want teachers to inflict boring, impenetrably highbrow writing on students, there's always Michael Ondaatje.
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Date: 2007-04-23 09:22 pm (UTC)It did make sense as an approach though. It frustrates me that Shakespeare is generally taught as if it were some kind of wholly cerebral performance for intellectuals. It never was! Shakespeare's plays were vulgar entertainment for the masses. If they aren't taught that way, there's almost no point teaching them at all. If the principals and unions want teachers to inflict boring, impenetrably highbrow writing on students, there's always Michael Ondaatje.