[etni] Texting Shakespeare
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:31:02 +0300
Texting Shakespeare
amarillo.com - July 30, 2009
Bard's language poses challenge for teachers
Most teenage girls today wouldn't go to the trouble of saying "Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo?" It would be more like "Y R U Romeo?"
But nearly 400 years after his death, references to William Shakespeare
abound in American culture. Filmmakers still make blockbuster movies out of
his stories. The film "10 Things I Hate About You" is based on Shakespeare's
"The Taming of the Shrew." Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack and
Cody" produced a "Romeo and Juliet" episode.
And so high school English teachers take on the daunting task each year of
teaching "Romeo and Juliet" and other deeply layered Shakespearean works to
a generation more accustomed to texting in abbreviation.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/073009/new_news1.shtml )
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