Guardian.UK:
Teaching rap in schools. “Why is it there? Principally, the authorities argue, because it gets kids reading - and, just like marijuana, it leads on to the hard stuff, like Shakespeare.” The mistake schools make, is that Shakespeare is meant to be performed, not force-fed to youngsters a half-dozen pages at a time. It is not ‘hard’. Reading “Romeo and Juliet” seems torture to youths; seeing it performed live will change kids’ perceptions of Shakespeare forever:
“If it were now to die,
‘Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,
My soul hath her content so absolute
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate ...”
Yeah, you know which one.
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