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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.2858  Monday, 17 December 2001

From:           Richard Burt <burt@english.umass.edu>
Date:           Saturday, 15 Dec 2001 09:05:26 -0500
Subject:        "Not Another Teen Movie" and Shakespeare

An English class at John Hughes High School. The teacher, interrupted by
a burst of flatulence from one of his students and a burst of laughter
from the rest of them, launches into an impassioned tirade against the
younger generation's sense of humor.  Meanwhile, three clumsy,
sex-crazed freshmen are perched in an air duct above the girls'
bathroom, where they witness a young woman's intestinal distress.

As the teacher winds up his speech, he invokes Shakespeare, Molière, and
the tradition of "sublime poetic genius," which today's youth has
abandoned in favor of a fascination with "human excrement." Q.E.D.: no
sooner does he utter these words than the air duct collapses, followed
by the floor of the toilet stall, a cataclysm that douses the poor man's
classroom in something
other than sublime poetic genius.
by A.O. Scott in NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/movies/14TEEN.html

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