a) I can honestly say I’ve heard the name a thousand times
but never cared enough to inquire what Hamlet was about. If the title sounds
boring to me I usually just do not care what the story is about.
b) I know Shakespeare
was a writer in medieval times I think. I know he wrote Romeo and Juliet and that’s all I really care to know because that
story was uninteresting enough as it was.
c) We frown because everyone knows how Shakespeare writes in
iambic pentameter and that his writing is too fancy.
d) To make this reading experience amazing we’d need a
competition to find the largest amount of suggestive passages in the story and
discuss them as a class after.
While I agree entirely with your idea of discussing the naughty stuff in Shakespeare's writings, I seriously think you are being a little hard on the dude! We are talking about a guy who was trowing these these plays together in a bumpy coach, while traveling from city to city. Here we are, hundreds of years later, and we still can't agree on what he was trying to say! Hell, that's gotta count for something, right?
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