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Originally Posted by Sir_Gawain
There's something I mentioned on the other thread that never seemed to catch the discusion. That is - Do the kids in Good Omens scare anyone else? They think that Romeo and Juliet is a history book, and Mercutio's famous line 'A plague on both your houses' was 'A Plaque on both your houses'. And that's the 'smart one' of the group. These kids are 11. We're talking 6th graders here. I have a friend who play Viola from 'Twelth Night' or 'As You Will' when she was 11. At my school we read a different Shakespeare play, in full, every year 6th grade and up. And we preform scenes from his plays for years before that. The 4th graders did a scene from 'Midsummer Night's Dream' last year. The level of ignorance the Them show is scary to me.
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We never learnt Shakespeare at primary/middle school - which went up to age 12 - and even at a grammar school, which which was for the top 25% or so in the area, we didn't touch it until about 14.
As for Mercutio... he never cropped up in my lessons at school
at all.
Sir Gawain, I don't think it's patronising to think that they wouldn't know this. Probably the majority of 11 year-olds know less. You're just lucky to go to such a smarty-pants school and have such smarty-pants friends :p