Tom Shields Dumb Down Bill Shakespeare and Even His Darkest Tragedies May Become a Laughing Stock
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SHAKESPEARE is the unhappy subject of quarrels (to steal a line from Act 5, Scene I of The Merchant Of Venice) among educationalists in deepest England. Traditionalists fear that a set of textbooks doth dumb down excessively the works of their bard.
They may have a point, considering the length the books go to make Shakespeare's prose more accessible to today's literacy- challenged pupils.See the full content of this document
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Tom Shields Dumb Down Bill Shakespeare and Even His Darkest Tragedies May Become a Laughing Stock
Take, for example, the poignant moment when Juliet wakes up with Romeo and says: "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark that pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear. Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale."
In translation, this is reduced to the more understandable but somewhat less poe...See the full content of this document
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