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> Shakespeare is inappropriate for children, they cannot understand the
> language. Who amongst us understands the joke in Troilus and Cressida
> when someone asks where Ajax is and the answer is "Looking for
> himself" You need to know that Ajax sounds like "a jacksie" or an old
> fashioned name for a toilet. That is he was crapping himself.

Actually I think that's what makes it particularly suitable for children (or 
at least young teenagers). The fact that the dirty jokes and innuendos have 
to be explained to modern audiences - and some, like the "two backed beast", 
don't really have to - does not make them less palatable. There's a healthy 
dose of slapstick and crude humor in Shakespeare that makes it very 
attractive to kids, provide you give them the keys of course.

G.

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