UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE
Sir,-I was very interested to hear Mr. Anthony Quayle state emphatically in a recent radio interview that he considers Shakespeare is not for immature minds. As an ex-teacher, I cannot agree, too strongly. How often do we hear people say that having to study Shakespeare at school has given them a strong dislike, even a hatred of the Bard and all asso- * ciated with him? In my teaching days I tried many methods of presentation, with few or no good results. Either it is comletely over their heads, or . else its beauty and meaning are killed in the process of interpretation. Always one comes up against the same barrier-they cannot understand it arid therefose they dislike it and a prejudice-is built, up_ which ‘takes a Tot ‘of breaking down. Lét
us.not go on forcing Shakespeare on generation after generation of young adolescents. Let us wait until they are adult and can approach the plays and the poetry with an open mind.
D.
HAYWARD
(Nae Nae).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 5
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167UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 5
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