The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0566  Monday, 12 March 2001

[1]     From:   Brian Haylett <
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        Date:   Friday, 09 Mar 2001 15:27:27 +0000
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0551 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye

[2]     From:   Sean Lawrence <
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        Date:   Friday, 09 Mar 2001 21:31:32 -0800
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0560 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye

[3]     From:   Stephanie Hughes <
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        Date:   Sunday, 11 Mar 2001 09:01:17 -0800
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0471 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye

[4]     From:   Karen Peterson-Kranz <
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        Date:   Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:58:27 -0800 (PST)
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0560 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye


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From:           Brian Haylett <
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Date:           Friday, 09 Mar 2001 15:27:27 +0000
Subject: 12.0551 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.0551 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye

>We don't need Shakespeare in schools.  He is in and around us
>everywhere.  He changed western thinking.

But if he had not been in my school, I would not have read English and
might well have become a Math teacher. That might have been a successful
career, but, on the whole, I prefer things the way they were. In any
case, it isn't going to happen now, and it seems that only the media
thought it was: we are told that the proposal was to keep Shakespeare in
course assessment and drop him from the final written papers. But who
knows whom to believe these days?

Brian Haylett

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From:           Sean Lawrence <
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Date:           Friday, 09 Mar 2001 21:31:32 -0800
Subject: 12.0560 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.0560 Re: Bard Bade Goodbye

Marti Markus writes that

>In my country (Switzerland) the Koran has never been a compulsory
>lecture, and the Kamasutra, unfortunately, is largely unknown, but it is
>not forbidden to read either of them.

Since there are subscribers who live in countries where the Qu'ran is
compulsory, are you going to insult it too, now?

>Personally, I would be more pleased to connotate
>Shakespeare with the Kamasutra than with the Bible.

What about the Song of Songs?

>Why not have wine lists in our literary and ethical Canon instead?

Because the point of wine is to drink it, not talk about it.

Cheers,
Se