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re: Shakespeare, any edition of the plays that high school or undergrad students are being asked to read will have line/word glosses that address the vocabulary
by allturtles 2y ago
re: Shakespeare, any edition of the plays that high school or undergrad students are being asked to read will have line/word glosses that address the vocabulary problem. When I read Shakespeare in high school we also read key passages aloud together in class and discussed the meaning, and in some cases were asked to memorize a passage. We covered one Shakespeare play in each of my four years of high school, and I got plenty out of it.
- jerf 2y agoIn other words, you read a translation but with extra steps. We might as well cut out the extra steps. I did say that there's plenty of literary content there, but there's no reason to jam the original in student's faces and insist "THIS! THIS IS LITERATURE! oh by the way here's the definition of every tenth word and commentary on every third phrase".
- allturtles 2y agoOkay, you seem to have some bee in your bonnet about Shakespeare, I will drop the subject.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoYou could get the content with a pure translation. But part of Shakespeare is the cadence, and that's really hard to preserve in a translation. You think that's not important for modern people? Hip hop would disagree with you. So would many preachers (including politicians). And showing high school students who are into hip hop "look, Shakespeare is doing the same things" is a really interesting hook for them.