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To: Grainne who wrote (45935)	7/17/1999 9:32:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I personally think its stupid for children to see Shakespeare before they are teenagers- then they should start with Romeo and Juliet- which is perfect for their age and maturity. And of course they should see it not read it. Children don't know enough of the world to appreciate Shakespeare. But as adults- or at least as literate adults- we must study Shakespeare or we won't catch many of the allusions made to him in both print and film. "What Dreams May Come" stolen from Shakespeare. Just one tiny recent example. Makes me feel better to know where it came from. Not having Shakespeare mandatory for English majors would be a travesty. They would never be able to evaluate literature with the same competency as someone who had studied Shakespeare. The Bible is the most alluded to work in Western literature, but after that I bet comes the collected oeuvre of Shakespeare.