If we were to go back to 1986 and visit Tamalpais High School, California, we might find Ms Owens teaching her English class. There is a reading of Shakespeare’s Othello. But as a 16-year-old boy is delivering Othello’s conversation with himself about whether or not to kill Desdemona, Ms Owens stops the reading to say something to the class about his delivery: “You will never, in your lifetime, hear an Othello read as well as you have heard just now.”
Icon no 7: Tupac Shakur (Part B)
Icon no 7: Tupac Shakur (Part B)
Icon no 7: Tupac Shakur (Part B)
If we were to go back to 1986 and visit Tamalpais High School, California, we might find Ms Owens teaching her English class. There is a reading of Shakespeare’s Othello. But as a 16-year-old boy is delivering Othello’s conversation with himself about whether or not to kill Desdemona, Ms Owens stops the reading to say something to the class about his delivery: “You will never, in your lifetime, hear an Othello read as well as you have heard just now.”