To modify Shakespeare so the college student can better understand "what's happening" is like taking a masterful work of music and replacing the best parts with something like "E-I-E-I-O". As if the actual writing is not the composition of the art itself. Why not just paint a huge smile on the Mona Lisa so nobody has to wonder what she's thinking, or forbid the thought, understand it from one's own perspective.
Understand "her", rather. Or DaVinci, himself.
I think the professor of the logic class I am taking this semester would call that last comment a "rather/or" Syllogism.
Funny the way we simplify Shakespeare to better understand it, yet complicate what is instinctively obvious in order to become "logical".
-(Imported from my Twitter posts tonight)
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