You simply can't.
Hell no! I'm dreaming my kids do the same.
Our school system's English teachers typically started kids out in 7th or 8th grade with Julius Ceasar because it has less sex. I think it turned a lot of kids off of Shakespeare which is tragic.
My 7th grade English teacher started us with Taming of the Shrew.
I eventually got the coolest English teacher in my high school to revive an actual Shakespeare class by rounding up the 13 other students needed to teach it. That semester rocked. I saw my first live performace of any Shakespeare (a professionally acted production of Twelfth Night which was BRILLIANT) at Notre Dame University.
1) I remember studying
Macbeth
when I was 16 and getting my 7 year old sister to read it with me, so we were kinda doing a playreading. She turned out okay.
2)
"Handsome man, saved me from the Papists."
laughs and laughs and laughs.
3)
her name is Miss Wealthy Stanhope.
You are fucking KIDDING me? Wow. What's the betting she dies and leaves all her money to Elsie? (Do you think she had sisters named Beautiful and Clever and Virtuous and suchlike? Or Penniless and Moderately Affluent?
More likely Pious and Worthy and Pleasing-To-The-Lord.
t still not over finding Puritan ancestors with hyphenated first names praising the Lord.
You are fucking KIDDING me? Wow. What's the betting she dies and leaves all her money to Elsie? (Do you think she had sisters named Beautiful and Clever and Virtuous and suchlike? Or Penniless and Moderately Affluent?
snerk. So far, it's been mentioned several times that her home is plain and simple compared to Elsie's house, with most of her stuff old and worn, but perfectly neat and clean. And she has a pet poodle and a cat.
Elsie's father's younger brother, Arthur, who has already tried to injure if not kill Elsie twice when she wouldn't lend him money to cover a gambling debt, now owes another gambler a whole lot of money, and says that he'll pay it back by introducing him to Elsie, who's due to inherit a fortune as soon as she turns 21, so that the gambler friend can marry her. The sole thing that Arthur is ashamed of in this venture is that someone who's not from a good family will be marrying into his family.
Heh.
I think my first Shakespeare was ninth grade,
Romeo and Juliet.
After that, I think we only did
Julius Caesar.
The rest of my Shakespeare was all in college, and boy did I like it better when I finally saw it performed.
I grew up with a Shakespeare in the Park in my neighborhood. Anyone could come and watch and it was absolutely no frills. LOVED it as a kid.
My dad also read me Shakespeare plays as bedtime stories. I have always had a fond place in my heart for Taming of the Shrew.
Drive by to say I had possibly the best piece of fish I've ever had tonight, seared black cod with a miso glaze. Unbelievable.
I'm glad I don't live here because I couldn't afford to go back every night like I almost want to.
