Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article
<Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271915410.28283-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:

> The Shakespeare worship

Not a matter of worship, just appreciatation

> and when I reveal my distaste for this stuff

Perhaps you were badly introduced in school, which is a shame
indeed! No one is saying you have to like Shakespeare, but we
can be sorry that you are missing out :-) After all you may be
missing something, and if you think Shakespeare is "shallow",
most likely you are! One can dislike Shakespeare for many
reasons, but a judgment that it is shallow almost certainly
means that there is indeed something you are missing. That's
not so surprising. It's hard work, and often introduced very
badly in schools.

Of course you can dismiss this as spoutings of elitist
nonsense, but in this case there do seem to be a *rather*
large number of spouters. Are you REALLY saying you see
nothing to appreciate in Branagh's Henry V (please don't
tell me you haven't seen it



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