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Best Intro to Shakespeare?

On March 25th, 2009 Laurie said:

I think Romeo and Juliet is one of the worst ways to get people excited about Shakespeare. It's overdone and I think that even though the title characters are the same age as the kids reading the play, I don't think they're that easy to relate to.
I'm a fan of introducing Shakespeare through his comedies. As You Like It, Twelfth Night, or The Comedy of Errors would all be superb ways to introduce Shakespeare to kids. But then again, had I read any one of those instead of Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet, I probably would never have been infuriated enough to read The Complete Works the first time through to figure out why all the fuss over Shakespeare. :D

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