Identifying with Muggles in Potterverse WAS: Re: DD at th...

[a_svirn]

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> Carol responds:
 
> But if we consider what was actually taught in British schools at the
> time, we can be pretty sure that the curriculum didn't contain any
> works by Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's own time, his plays were the
> equivalent of popular culture, <huge snip>

a_svirn:
But that's exactly my point. Shakespeare was an equivalent of popular
culture at the point when muggles and wizards had *common* popular
culture. So it would be much more probable for modern wizards to know
about Shakespeare rather than about Ovid or Cicero whose works were
part of the school curriculum at the time.