>Be in school
>Do Macbeth
>Everyone I asked says it's boring
>Can't get through a lesson without a snooze
>Don't get the hype behind shakespeare
>teacher says 'it's relatable'
Do you think someone as highly esteemed as shakespeare be taught to high school students?
I enjoyed Macbeth in year 10. Was also reading Plato and swiving beautiful teens then as well. Still the real value of Shakespeare lay in his poetic form, and how that is coupled with the archetypal ideal story's. "A mans slow decline into madness through lust of power" etc. It's just bad education system and parents that causes children not to appreciate Shakespeare. If men were instead imbued with the ideal of the heroic as I was than perhaps they would better understand.
swive
Literal teens and philistines...
>could I be a fucking retard?
>no, it's the western canon that's wrong
>Do you think someone as highly esteemed as shakespeare be taught to high school students?
Well he hasn’t done much to improve your literacy sadly so maybe they should just pack it in and teach Harry Potter.
Esl
Why do you think so?
Shakespear is gay. David Lyndsay wrote better poetry in a better language.
I am usually extremely reluctant to imply that people are putting on airs, but in Shakespeare's case I really feel like there are a lot more people pretending to understand Early Modern English than they let on. It's not intuitive at all even to a native English speaker, but he's such a huge relevance on par with the Bible that you're an absolute rube if you say you don't understand Shakespeare.
You should at bare minimum watch actual performances before you try reading Shakespeare, and even then I still had a hard time telling what the fuck was going on t.b.h. and had to read secondary material to understand the plots. People will call me a dumbass for this but what can be done, maybe I am, maybe you're a pretentious fag, maybe both.