SIX at 6: Hating Shakespeare, The Other Half of You, A Problematic Story, A Happy-Inducing Story, A Second Opinion, and The Power Broker In Your Life (opens in new tab)

What Shapes And Controls Experience In an essay titled “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare,” James Baldwin traces this hatred back to being forced to read the supposedly great writer in grade school. “I was a victim,” Baldwin writes, “of that loveless education which causes so many schoolboys to detest Shakespeare.” Many years later, he gave Shakespeare […] The post SIX at 6: Hating Shakespeare, The Other Half of You, A Problematic Story, A Happy-Inducing Story, A Second Opinion, and The Power ...