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Article: BRIGHTENING THE BARD
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1989
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Martin F. Nolan is editor of the Globe's editorial page.
The ripest scandal of the week was not in Washington but in the
nation's classrooms. A survey of public and private schools showed
that Shakespeare doesn't stand a chance.
The stats say that 84 percent of the schools teach "Romeo and
Juliet," but we know that chalky pedagogues, as zealously as
Juliet's nurse, conceal the bawdy passages from adolescents. First
impressions are lasting; a chaste romance means that "Love goes
toward love, as schoolboys from their books / But love from love,
toward school with heavy looks."
Worse yet, 81 percent of schools force "Macbeth" down teen-age
throats. Real cheerful stuff. A dour, ...
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