stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoHillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida ruleswww.tampabay.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkHillsborough schools cut back on Shakespeare, citing new Florida ruleswww.tampabay.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
The decision is aimed at better performance on state tests and avoiding sexual content found in some of the Bard’s work.
minus-squareCameli_Hostis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year ago“Come, come, you wasp; i’ faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
“Come, come, you wasp; i’ faith, you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
Katherine: In his tongue.
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”