Huh? Who would WANT to force Shakespeare on anyone? We used to make a practice of reading his plays aloud in the family room, playing roles as they came along, and got a great hoot out of it. It made the whole era fascinating.

The only reason reading Shakespeare (or anyone else) would destroy a desire to read is that the reader was so riddled with misunderstanding that it was meaningless to them. Enforced reading of anything is a mistaken approach which all our schools would be better off dispensing with.

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