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SHAKESPEARE'S CLASSICAL CURICULUM

10/1/2013

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SHAKESPEARE’S  CLASSICAL CURRICULUM

Elizabeth Lynn’s  An Ongoing Experiment, a disquisition on the states’ humanities councils, has  just released by the Kettering Foundation: http://kettering.org/wp-content/uploads/An-Ongoing-Experiment.pdf.  I especially liked  Peter Levine’s Foreword, and especially his  quotation from  Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew:

Only, good master, while we do admire

This virtue and this moral discipline,

Let’s be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;

Or so devote to Aristotle’s cheques

As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:

Balk logic with acquaintance that you have

And practise rhetoric in your common talk .
. . (I.i)

So ancient philosophy is just fine, but why not a little pleasure from Ovid as well, and why not put the great legacy of ancient rhetoric to use in our individual and civic lives?  Not a bad start for a classical education. One could do worse. Many students do.

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