Re:Why is Germany so obsessed with Hamlet?
by kwhitefoot on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:29AM
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That sounds like a terrible school and such a waste. I had Shakespeare, Dickens, C. Bronte, Kipling, Graham Greene, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, all as required reading plus loads of stuff we were encouraged to read plus extra-curricular drama put on for the public such as Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Pygmalion.
Just in case anyone is still around from those days that was Park Senior High School, Swindon, Wilts, 1970-1974. The more I hear of other people's schooling the more grateful I am for the schools I went to
Maybe it's just my poor schooling but the only author we ever /had/ to read was Shakespeare, my mother introduced me to Orwell, my grandfather to Dickens.
The schools only ever introduced Shakespear, like he was the only notable author in the last thousand years.