ACTRESS Daisy May Cooper thinks schools need to move on from teaching Shakespeare.
She said having children study his work was like making youngsters centuries from now analyse today’s soaps.
Daisy May Cooper thinks schools need to move on from teaching Shakespeare[/caption]
The actress says making children study English playwright William Shakespeare is like making kids centuries from now analyse toady’s soaps[/caption]
Daisy, 38, said: “It’s the equivalent of going 600 years into the future and making everybody at drama school there do old EastEnders episodes.
“Then talking at length at secondary school about the meaning of Pat Butcher’s character.
“It’s the f***ing same, move on.
“He’s f***ing dead.
“It’s so depressing.
“We did Shakespeare (at school) and I didn’t know what I was saying.
“Why are we still going on about Shakespeare?”
Daisy, known for shows including This Country and Am I Being Unreasonable?, is a former pupil of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where one of her classmates was Wicked star Cynthia Erivo.
Daisy said Cynthia, 38, was always incredibly determined and would never stand for their teachers’ tough approaches.
Speaking on Mo Gilligan’s podcast, Daisy said: “Cynthia Erivo was in my class and for somebody like me, I absorbed negativity like a f***ing sponge, just everything went in, and she was amazing.
“If a teacher had a go at her and said she was a s**t actress she would just go, ‘F*** you’ and I wish that I had that.”
Daisy won a Bafta in 2018 for This Country.
Cynthia has been nominated for three Oscars, including best actress this year for her role in Wicked.
