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  • I read this on my own in middle school, probably about seventh grade or so, just because I felt like it. I liked it back then, but I probably didn't understand it as well as I'd thought at the time. Most of the freshmen at my high school read this in their English classes, but I read Julius Caesar i ... Continue

    I read this on my own in middle school, probably about seventh grade or so, just because I felt like it. I liked it back then, but I probably didn't understand it as well as I'd thought at the time. Most of the freshmen at my high school read this in their English classes, but I read Julius Caesar instead. It made me sad... But I reread it several times since middle school, the most recent time for my IDST Shakespeare class at the college. I love this play so much.

    

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Essay by Catherine Belsey

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