FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 11, 2011
October 10, 2011
October 12, 2011
Transcript:
Teacher: So who can tell me why MacBeth sees an imaginary dagger before him? Peter Fox? Peter: Um... er... he's just been called on in class? Teacher: I said "imaginary."
Sometimes I wonder how Shakespeare would feel about what he wrote as bawdy entertainment being force fed to high schoolers to “analyze” how great it is (not that it isn’t great, but I think Shakespeare would have rather seen people laughing at it being performed than grumbling about writing an in-depth analytical paper about it!).