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why should we study shakespeare in schools today?
isnt it out dated now?

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• From: NONAME (@ ppp-67-118-246-135.dialup.pltn13.pacbell.net) on: Mon Sep 15 21:03:21 EDT 2003
  
  I HAVE A BELLY BUTTON!
  
  
• From: anonymous (@ dsc02-sfr-ca-205-184-183-115.rasserver.net) on: Tue Sep 16 00:18:13 EDT 2003
  
  will pay for essay on why study shakespeare.
  
  
• From: Proctor (@ px3nr.wp.shawcable.net) on: Wed Oct 15 00:26:05 EDT 2003
  
  Quote - "From: stg (@ 12.151.162.25) on: Mon Sep 15 05:07:45 EDT 2003
  
  why study history? it outdated isnt it? "
  
  We study history so we do not repeat past mistakes.
  But as for shakespeare, I'm trying to do a research paper on Shakespeare in Schools and I cannot find any creditable information (i.e. published in a journal) that argues whether shakespeare should be forced on the students, or that it shouldn't be manditory. If anyone has any information for me It would be very appreciated.
  
  
• From: Wanna be shakespeare (@ ce2-mel.netspace.net.au) on: Wed Oct 15 00:54:38 EDT 2003
  
  Shakespeare rocks. He has a band and he also has a belly button
  
  
• From: VJ (@ 210.187.2.158) on: Thu Oct 16 01:31:38 EDT 2003
  
  You wanna know a man who had dedicated his life to study and express the good and bad side of human being in literal...read shakespeares work.
  
  
• From: swetha (@ 210.187.2.158) on: Fri Oct 17 04:46:42 EDT 2003
  
  Shakespeare novels and poet are so meaningfully..to nowdays generation
  
  
• From: dissaointed (@ proxy.melbourne.vic.australis.com.au) on: Sun Oct 19 03:33:00 EDT 2003
  
  i dont understand shakespeare. i kinda want to learn it but when we do it in class they just seem to ruin. it is making my experiance a very bad one. making me never want to see another shakespeare book again. i dont think we should have to study it in schools for this reason. it just ruins it.
  
  
• From: WTFMULEYMAN (@ ip68-102-115-136.ks.ok.cox.net) on: Sun Feb 22 21:54:10
  
  Shakespeare sux deh ballz
  
  
• From: s.d tiwary (@ 203.201.215.2) on: Mon Mar 22 02:52:56 EST 2004
  
  shakespeare is considered as the best poets and playwrights the english world has yet ever producded.his literary works are so entertaining that any one would like to read them again and again.so long as we talk about english literatue,there wold be a prominent place of this genius in the field of english literature.
  
  
• From: tuha (@ 212.72.14.254) on: Mon Mar 22 05:12:29 EST 2004
  
  We study history so we do not repeat past mistakes. i dont understand shakespeare. i kinda want to learn it but when we do it in class they just seem to ruin. it is making my experiance a very bad one. making me never want to see another shakespeare book again. i dont think we should have to study it in schools for this reason. it just ruins it.
  
  but shakespeare is considered as the best poets and playwrights the english world has yet ever producded.his literary works are so entertaining that any one would like to read them again and again.so long as we talk about english literatue,there wold be a prominent place of this genius in the field of english literature.
  
  
• From: tic (@ adsl-68-22-204-143.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net) on: Wed Mar 24 04:02:46 EST 2004
  
  the mans syntax is knowledge in its own right.
  it gives students a better understanding and creative ability to use words to the fullest extent. and his legacy alone, stresses the more you write and read the better you'll be- it teaches practice, discipline, and staying focused will keep you ahead of the others.
  
  
• From: tic (@ adsl-68-22-204-143.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net) on: Wed Mar 24 04:02:57 EST 2004
  
  the mans syntax is knowledge in its own right.
  it gives students a better understanding and creative ability to use words to the fullest extent. and his legacy alone, stresses the more you write and read the better you'll be- it teaches practice, discipline, and staying focused will keep you ahead of the others.
  
  
• From: >'.'< (@ cpe000c419e9cfb-cm000039b7fe61.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Thu Apr 29 18:39:03
  
  my class had a debate about studying shakespeare. And the main point why we shouldn't study Shakespeare is because shakespeare made most of his stories based on mythology. Therefore it would be better to study mythology or the Bible because all stories are alluded to the bible or mythology.
  
  
• From: Val (@ 64.71.106.34) on: Thu May 6 13:36:11 EDT 2004
  
  Shakespeare was such a great predictor with his plays that there are lessons to be learned today. Shakespeare captivated his audiences in the reniassance and he still captivates his audences hundreds of years later. Shakespeare has lessons to be learned even today when circumstances are completely different. If anyone would like to know more about Shakespeare from a peer instead of a teacher, just drop me a line.
  
  
• From: quake (@ 202.68.154.144) on: Thu May 6 19:45:31 EDT 2004
  
  http://www.iomx.com
  
  
• From: mchael zuggsmith (@ 69-163-112-2.stmnca.adelphia.net) on: Mon May 31 20:20:06 EDT 2004
  
  shakespere is useless, he stole all of his work from my great great grandfather and i hope shakespere dies!
  
  
• From: Johnny (@ cache1.wa.westnet.com.au) on: Sun Jun 27 04:07:19 EDT 2004
  
  AND YOUR GREATGRANDFATHER STOLE IT OFF MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!! idiot
  
  
• From: alon fisher (@ netcache6.is.co.za) on: Sat Jul 24 18:14:34 EDT 2004
  
  As a Jewish high school student I revile studying this rabid Anti-Semite and yet it's being forced on other Jewish students who by all rights should be exempt from studying this racist arrogant prick
  
  Alon, South Africa
  
  
• From: Dee (@ tow-ts1-2600.tpgi.com.au) on: Sun Aug 1 07:54:41 EDT 2004
  
  Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, uses many words to say the one thing, takes the effort to pick at the world around him and the mistakes we make yet not looking upon himself always about tragdies and love and etc. i dont want to read Midsummer nights dream, or macbeth or romeo and juliet, it is constanly done over and over again its a bore he was born along time ago learn his literature in a history class why in english when our literature is yet worse cause we waste our time on petty things like shakespeare
  
  
• From: stressed out highschooler (@ dialup-67.93.220.203.acc03-nort-cbr.comindico.com.au) on: Mon Oct 18 05:15:42
  
  help me i have an essay on shakespear and i dont know jack about him the question is "IS SHAKESPEAR RELEVENT discuss in relation to the taming of the shrew"
  
  
• From: Annonymous (@ ip68-10-217-86.hr.hr.cox.net) on: Sat Jan 1 13:28:15
  
  Why study Shakespeare? You all seem to agree on the point that Shakespeare is hard to read and comprehend. Although the languange itself is difficult to modern readers, if you read enough it becomes much easier. The Bard, though not the "best" playwrite of all time, is one that will stay in the curriculum for a long time, so get used to it. His works deal with themes that are timeless (ie. love, jealousy, religion, family). Many of you complained about the same old plays that everyone has read (Romeo and Juliet ect.), try reading come of his other lesser read classics such as the Tempest, Othello, King lear. Don't write off an author because the language is too difficult. Without these masters we would all be reading Sesame Street.
  
  

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