'Bottom, thou art translated.'

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Originally Posted by davem

Well, there's a real danger that they might not be able to tell the difference between Dylan & Keats when they grow up.

I know you're just trying to be clever so I don't expect you to explain how that might follow from Shakespeare comics.

I don't see the disaster, though. Kids come out of high school not knowing the difference between capitalism and communism, too; they're not given any sort of perspective on Pearl Harbor and the horrific culmination of U.S. retaliation; they're made to read Hemingway and completely ignore Dostoevsky; they learn to sing Disney songs in music class instead of being exposed to Chopin and Dvorak. There's a lot of things to whine about when it comes to education. So what? It'd be nice if everybody's idea of what constitutes a meaningful education could be fulfilled in tax-supported schools, but it's not going to happen, and a comic book used to spark an interest in Shakespeare is better than ignoring him altogether, whether deliberately through curriculum, or through the kids' lack of interest.

Whether Dylan is "greater" than Keats remains a matter of opinion, regardless of how hard you blow.