Laurie Griffiths wrote:
>
> Frank wrote "... (BTW, I thought everybody in Britain was force fed
> Shakespeare during
> elemntary school the same way us poor Norwegians are force fed Ibsen!)"
>
> Yes, indeed. In an education that was about as far biased towards sciences
> as it could be I was nevertheless force-fed Henry IV, Henry V, Lear and
> Macbeth, there may have been others too, but if we did 12th Night then I
> have forgotten it. Also I was young and pitifully innocent and missed
> almost all of the dirty jokes.
So, basically what you're saying is that you were forced to read all the
heavy stuff, but that they skipped all the fun plays Shakespeare wrote?
Sad, but not too uncommon a story :-(
Frank
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