Trust Me, Assigning Summer Reading Is Totally Pointless I am all for torturing children. As the overlord of a 9 th grade classroom, I forced them to memorize sections of The Aeneid , socked them with the one-two punch of The Odyssey and The Iliad and finished them off on a Shakespearian rack. Let them suffer, I say.
June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire
Geoffrey Rush in New York Times What I love most is the play's brazen theatricality - it was like Ionesco was throwing great gobs of phosphorus and paint at the canvas and dishing up a faux Molière with wisps of Shakespearian allusion all the way through it,Mr. Rush said....
Trent Lott in ABC News Even in the Senate when he used to heckle us for doing stupid things, which we usually were, it was not with Shakespearian flare,Lott said.
Thomas Friedman in theTrumpet.com The Middle East has gotten itself tied into such an impossible knot,Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times, "that biblical references or Shakespearian quotations simply don't suffice anymore to describe how impossibly tangled politics...