Posted on 05/13/2010 11:57:27 AM PDT by wintertime
Branagh’s my man for this one. His was a more muscular delivery. One of the best speeches of all time, I think. It is hardly taught today; you have to look for it. Shakespeare’s work is out of fashion these days; the barely literate inmates of our public school system wouldn’t understand a word. more’s the pity, as Shakespeare offers such a rich tapestry of the human condition. All of his works inhabit my hard copy library. I will teach them one one day.
I was actually introduced to it in a leadership conference many years ago in my original career. It was presented as the best leadership speech ever written.
I suspect that you are correct in that very little Shakespeare is taught in most schools today. I have about 20-25 paperbacks in my library from when I went to HS decades ago. By contrast, I think my son (who graduated from HS in 2005) read about 3. And it is indeed a pity.
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