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Old 06-21-2012, 06:35 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I live in Scotland so it might be different in other countries. For Higher English, they can teach Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth I am sure. For Higher Drama they do Twelfth Night sometimes. For Advanced Higher English they do Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and A Winter's Tale - as well as the sonnets!
In America it's not that different, except the books aren't decided by education levels but by the teachers. Everybody learns Romeo and Juliet and his sonnets during Freshman/Sophomore year, and the upperclassmen read the ones that you mentioned with the addition of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and King Lear. Hamlet was definitely the highlight of my Senior year's reading assignments.
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