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Learning the lighter side of Shakespeare, Moliere

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From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20040327
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14moreLOCAL NEWSSATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2004If you've ever thought about asking your kids what they did at school today, you might get some answers like this: "We saw a headless body fly over our heads this morning," your child might say. Or: "We watched an old man lock away an orphan girl so she would marry him and tell her she can't talk with any other men."

And then you might ask yourself: What are they teaching my kid at school?

They are teaching about one of the most-noted writers of all time, William Shakespeare, or about Moliere, a controversial French comic playwright in the 1600s who ...

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