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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why Shakespeare? Why not Chaucer?  
I’m also wondering how many of the vigorous supporters of reading Shakespeare have read any of his works beyond some academic requirement, or have even gone to plays.  Is this an ongoing interest with ongoing support? Any Folger fans? [/quote]

On DCUM? Probably a lot. I was just thinking I need to re-watch Kenneth Branaugh's Much Ado About Nothing tonight as a palate cleanser to some of the eye-rolling pronouncements from Freshman Psych. Between COVID and really young kids I haven't seen anything live in a while, but the last Shakespeare play I went to was probably The Shakespeare Theater's rendition of MacBeth a few years ago with the backdrop of an African civil war and the three witches as CIA-type operatives that I thought was an interesting take. [/quote]

That sounds like a fascinating production! If I had seen that when I was a high school student, I probably would have enjoyed —and appreciated — Macbeth a lot more.  [/quote]

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