Re: The Demonization of Shakespeare

Scott Dorsey wrote:

In article <vt4v77$3s105$2@dont-email.me>, Titus G  <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

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That is my experience as well. Although not stocked in the school
library, the public library kept up to date mainly with the yellow and
black Gollanz books. I appreciated and respected my English teachers but
was too immature to appreciate Shakespeare at that time.

 My mother told me that nice people didn't read books like "Exiled on Earth"

In my mother's teen years a local paper ran SF reprints in its weekend magazine.  So when I started reading stories by Asimov, Heinlein, et al, some were already familiar to her and she enjoyed rereading them.
My father read Anderson's "Satan's World" declared it a pretty good yarn, so there was no trouble from that sector.  In fact I got a thick one volume H.G. Wells and the two volume "Penguin Modern Science Fiction" as a birthday gift.

and my English teacher was horrified to hear that I was reading Asimov.

Our English teacher allowed the class to select one SF book which we would read and discuss.  Alas, the class selection was Philip Wylie's "Triumph", but even that was better than nothing. Still, it showed an open mind on his part.
My submitted stories in HS English were always SF.  I always got a terrible mark, but that was because they were terrible stories, not because they were SF.
William Hyde