the danger of just a little bit of Shakespeare
Jun 20th, 2008 by woodstone
During this past school year I decided to introduce M and R to Shakespeare… I bought some abridged children’s versions of some of his works which they read, and we also read several books about him. I thought they should know who he was, when and where he lived, and have at least a tiny bit of familiarity with his writings.
I’m not sure if this was a good idea or not.
As we were driving to town today R asked me, “Is that Shakespeare, Mom?”.
Not sure what she was talking about (her conversation tends to jump around a lot), I replied, “Is what Shakespeare?”
R, “Those words”
Me, trying not to sound impatient,”What words?”
R, looking at the rearview mirror, ”Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”
Me, “No sweety, that’s not Shakespeare…”
DD tends to jump around in her conversations too. I am forever asking her what she’s talking about…”Noun please?” (I should probably say “subject please”)
I still quote Shakespeare!
*LOL* A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Shakespeare?
Oh, the innocence of a child. Sure, everyone knows it was Twain that wrote that…
You know the old saying: any quote has to be either from the Bible or Shakespeare. (or maybe Twain.)
I finally found the right response… “for my part, it was Greek to me”. -W, Shakespeare