> Ok, let's talk Romeo and Juliet. A person in Connecticut, and a person > in Moscow, have a HECK of a lot more in common with each other cuturally > than either one of them has with a person born and raised in Saigon, > Calcutta, or Central Africa. If people from all five of these regions > read Romeo and Juliet, I suspect the Russian and the Connecticut people > would approach the text with a lot more common assumptions than the other > three would. True - but have you considered that different people may get different things out of such a text? For example, if you're a gang member in South Central LA or a strict Muslim woman, you're going to be affected a lot more by the gang warfare and arranged marriage subplots than most other races. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest