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Commentary: Cory Franklin - For Shakespeare, to disrupt or not to disrupt the question Cory Franklin FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 In an old joke, a repertory company prepares to stage “Hamlet” when the lead actor dies just before the first performance. The company frantically appeals to the packed audience for someone who knows Hamlet’s part. A volunteer steps forward, an egotistical fourth-rate actor, and it is immediately clear he is terrible: So bad that when he reaches the famous “to b...

The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright comes under assault from teachers who fault his un-woke attitudes regarding race, sexuality, gender and class.

I stole a book. I was a book thief. I found it in another kid’s desk and began reading, hiding it behind some boring textbook, and couldn’t give it up. And when the last bell rang, I hid it furtively under my jacket as if it were some rare, precious and struggling bird, and walked home. It’s still with me. I’ll never give it up. That book that opened up the world to me. What was it? “Odysseus the Wanderer,” written for children by the classicist Aubrey de Selincourt. It is a version...

I stole a book. I was a book thief. I found it in another kid’s desk and began reading, hiding it behind some boring textbook, and couldn’t give it up. And when the last bell rang, I hid it furtively under my jacket as if it were some rare, precious and struggling bird, and walked home. It’s still with me. I’ll never give it up. That book that opened up the world to me. What was it? “Odysseus the Wanderer,” written for children by the classicist Aubrey de Selincour...

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