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Izkatayesterday at 12:03 PM1 replyview on HN

I think Shakespeare might just be a badly chosen set of "classics". Romeo and Juliet is so overdone in pop culture there's nothing interesting there, and the one or two others we had to read were just boring. But then I ran across Much Ado About Nothing (while still in school) and remember it being actually good.


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jobs_throwawayyesterday at 1:20 PM

> Romeo and Juliet is so overdone in pop culture there's nothing interesting there

The whole point is to read the actual primary text that has been so done, re-done, overdone. And hopefully to recognize there's some real beauty and drama in there