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I told J that in Shakespeare, comedies mean happy endings, and therefore there’s always a wedding in Act V. I gave them the example of Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Me: "How about Twelfth Night? Who do you think get married in Act V?"

J: "Olivia and Cesario."

Olivia/Cesario's Willow Cabin speech must have made quite an impact on them ;-)

I have been using Ken Ludwig’s How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare with J (then-7-y.o.) since summer 2015. They have learned passages from MND and Twelfth Night (Orsino's "If music be the food of love," Viola's "Conceal me what I am," and the willow cabin speech.) The book also provides summarized plot of the plays for context.

J did memorize several poems before we dove into Shakespeare. Both of us knew that they were perfectly capable of memorizing entire poems, including long ones.



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