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Sat 05 May 2010Studying Shakespeare is not like opening a Dundrum boutique
CULTURE SHOCK:Today’s students will learn nothing from such fatuous exercises as devising a marketing plan for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE
WHY SHOULD students (or anyone else for that matter) read old books or plays? For two, apparently contradictory, reasons. The first is to experience a strangeness, to immerse oneself in the reality that other people’s languages, assumptions and lives are very different from our own.
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