Funny how tastes differ, Katherine - I loved MACBETH at school, thought some of the passages were beautiful even then, and can still quote chunks of it by heart! We had a very good library at our boarding school and I enjoyed the peace and the scent of the books!, always found it the perfect way to entertain myself from the age of 4, more so when I discovered Enid Blyton!Katharine wrote:What books did people read at school? Did you enjoy them? Did it make you seek out other authors, or did they send you running straight back to the safety of Enid Blyton?
MacBeth and Henry IV Part I which I felt they were very boring They clouded my opinion of Shakespeare for a long time which is a shame. I'm sure if we'd studied Romeo and Juliet or Midsummer's Night Dream I'd have found them much easier to study
I re-read Arthur Grimble's A PATTERN OF ISLANDS which was one of our Eng Lit textbooks when I spent my perfect month in Hay, and the sequel IN THE ISLANDS AGAIN which was new to me - found the former a very enjoyable read when I didn't have to write essays on the characters of the chief players! - or maybe it was reading it by the roaring log fire in the Granary that brightened the story