I was talking to some young women educators recently, and neither knew what a cauldron is. I recited some Shakespeare to them, and they stared blankly at me. I’m not sure if my older children had to read any Shakespeare in high school. They may have read Romeo and Juliet. I’d rather they read Macbeth.
“They may have read Romeo and Juliet.”
My kid once came home & told me his high school English class was studying R & J,
The teacher had advised that the movie, starring Leo DiCaprio & Claire Danes, was “too hard” and had supplied instead a “textbook” in comic book form and written in “normal” language which was ghetto slang.
Mercutio was, IIRC, a homeboy.
I provided him with the Bard’s own version, along with a volume of Shakespeare’s plays written in novella/ form and in in modern, yet proper, English.