As a former professor of Shakespeare and Intellectual History, I can attest to the challenge that motivating young students to read Shakespeare and other intelligent literature presents. I and thousands of my former colleagues at the college and high school levels have spent countless hours conjuring new and exciting ways to capture the imagination of young people enough to get them to approach Shakespeare and other writers and philosophers with relish rather than with fear and loathing. Now comes James D. Moore, Jr, to instruct us all. I thank Dr. Moore. He has created the absolutely sure-fire motivation.
Nothing so intrigues young people as prohibition and censorship.
Now, they will resort to the most creative of strategies to ensure that they find out just what this Shakespeare and these other writers are up to. Well done, Dr. Moore. I want to go on record as praising the good work of James D. Moore Jr. in his fight to ban sex, violence and profanity in the schoolroom. Educators have struggled to entice students to read Shakespeare for hundreds of years and Dr. Moore may finally have found the solution. Youngsters have regarded Shakespeare as dull and indecipherable, but now that Dr. Moore has found something titillating, if not downright sinful in his plays, perhaps the kids can find black market copies of the forbidden literature to read in private, free from the prying eyes of the censors.