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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry but have you all read Shakespeare? The jokes are very bawdy and there are rape jokes too. [/quote]

Yeah

But the language goes over most people's heads.

How many kids really get the meaning unless it's explained to them?

[quote]True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids
to the wall.[/quote]

[i]RJ [/i]1.1[/quote]

If your kid is studying R & J in high school and doesn't get that it's about an older teen or adult male having sex with a 13 year old, withins days after he met her, then either he/she wasn't paying attention or whoever was teaching him did a lousy job, or most likely both. [/quote]

1. She was soon turning 14.
2. He was most likely closer to 16. Paris was MUCH older and established and therefore, a "better" match for her.
3. There is so much a teacher can do regarding close language analysis.  
4. The above lines do not address the interaction between R and J; they discuss the feud and how it's extended to servants working for both families. The bawdy language centers on the "weaker vessels" being the women - THRUST to the walls (basically raped) during a fight.

right over kids' (and adults') heads

Shakespeare is MUCH safer compared to Mamma Mia.

just sayin' as one who's taught high school English for over 25 years . . .[/quote]

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