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A comment on Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems. Parent comment

Re:Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems by mgfist on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:56AM (#31909347)
Think you're missing the point about the "high art" comment, which is just that we should introduce people to shakespeare in the way it was intended - as entertaining theater, not boring undecipherable books.

I can vouch for this, I hated reading Shakespeare and just sparknotes'd everything. Maybe I would've loved it if I had watched a funny play instead.

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Re:Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems by AlbertCory on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:31PM (#31909853)
If he just left it at that, I wouldn't have any objection.

Although if I'm in Ashland and going to see a Shakespeare play, I'll usually read it first. It helps to know what they're talking about. Some characters have three different names in the same play, for example.

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Re:Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems by mgfist on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @01:31PM (#31910574)
> Like, Shakespeare was not high art. We must stop treating him that way and kill the love of literature in children by forcing them dryly read “To be or not to be.”

Is that not the same thing?

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