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[quote=Anonymous][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]

1. Who cares? Why are we being so puritanical?

2. You all keep ignoring all the themes you'd be clutching your pearls over in Catullus, Sophocles, Homer, and other ancient Roman and Greek literature that many high school students have to read. Should we suddenly declare these poems and plays inappropriate for high schoolers? The story of Oedipus literally discusses incest. [/quote]

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