From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-28 17:50:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:40:28 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <952hmb$niq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94qbb4$bs1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87k87i2ha7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <94vnup$kia$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jan 29 01:40:28 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x57.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4641 Date: 2001-01-29T01:40:28+00:00 List-Id: In article , Brian Rogoff 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 Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/