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Old 06-21-2012, 03:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Just out of curiosity, what Shakespeare is being taught in school besides Romeo & Juliet?
I live in Scotland so it might be different in other countries. For Higher English, they can teach Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth I am sure. For Higher Drama they do Twelfth Night sometimes. For Advanced Higher English they do Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and A Winter's Tale - as well as the sonnets!
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Wonderful book so far by one of my absolute favorite people on Earth.
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Wonderful book so far by one of my absolute favorite people on Earth.
I've been meaning to buy that. Bourdain is my kind of pompous New Yorker. I love his show, its always a great treat.
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I live in Scotland so it might be different in other countries. For Higher English, they can teach Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth I am sure. For Higher Drama they do Twelfth Night sometimes. For Advanced Higher English they do Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and A Winter's Tale - as well as the sonnets!
In America it's not that different, except the books aren't decided by education levels but by the teachers. Everybody learns Romeo and Juliet and his sonnets during Freshman/Sophomore year, and the upperclassmen read the ones that you mentioned with the addition of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and King Lear. Hamlet was definitely the highlight of my Senior year's reading assignments.
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In America it's not that different, except the books aren't decided by education levels but by the teachers. Everybody learns Romeo and Juliet and his sonnets during Freshman/Sophomore year, and the upperclassmen read the ones that you mentioned with the addition of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and King Lear. Hamlet was definitely the highlight of my Senior year's reading assignments.
We did Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth and The Taming of the Shrew.
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I've been meaning to buy that. Bourdain is my kind of pompous New Yorker. I love his show, its always a great treat.
No Reservantions is one of the few shows that I truly love to watch. Bourdain is such a snarky *******, it's hard not to enjoy watching him.

I've been meaning to read the book as well. I'll get around to it one of these days.
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We did Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth and The Taming of the Shrew.
Haha whoops, my bad, but we did read that one and I ended up listing it as a Shakespeare book when I meant it as an upperclassmen book as a whole. Foolish drunkenness pushes me to moronic musicbanter posts once again...
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I live in Scotland so it might be different in other countries. For Higher English, they can teach Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth I am sure. For Higher Drama they do Twelfth Night sometimes. For Advanced Higher English they do Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and A Winter's Tale - as well as the sonnets!
It's pretty similar to what I read while I was in high school in Canada and the US.
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