Haven't any of you read Shakespeare?

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I have to laugh at the criticisms expressed against John McCain for saying "You do not have to be afraid of a President Obama". Can't you understand the suggestion? Have none of you read Othello? "Beware, my lord, of jealousy -" which nobody had thus far so much as mentioned. Or Julius Caesar? "For so are they all - all honourable men." John McCain is smarter than you think; and he is fighting meaner than you can imagine.

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[cheyinka]

When I was in high school (graduated in 2001), we studied two plays; Hamlet, because my honors English teacher liked one of the film adaptations, and Romeo and Juliet, because of the movie Romeo + Juliet which was the movie adapted to "modern times".

We also got to pick a soliloqui (sp) from a list of them from a number of plays, but that doesn't really count as reading more plays, and in any event that was only the honors English class, not the regular one... and I don't think the regular English class ever did study Hamlet.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I find that appalling. I did the whole of Hamlet for my A-levels, and King Lear as well. My teacher and I read through large portions of Hamlet, dividing the roles, and I got from this a lifelong love of the play.

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

It has to be said that was for A Level, what proportion of people do A Level English?

I didn't - much to my chagrin at the time and regret now - so in school was only exposed to Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. But for the annual appearance of the Royal Shakespere Company at Belfast Festival in the eighties that would have been it for Mr S.,