So many teachers visit, but do not purchase SOL Texts. I even had a twit of a grade nine teacher tell me once, “Oh, it is just cut Shakespeare; anyone could do that.” The ignorance of teachers of Shakespeare is almost bottomless, and most of you know it. I suggest you all read this website and learn something. Better yet, watch the speeches and hear something, something OUT LOUD! Stop boring your students with opinions. Shakespeare wrote his plays to be heard. Great directors at Stratford always prune their texts! Only the most experienced audiences members know what is gone! Sometimes, like Bedford’s Titus, or Langham’s Timon, the cut is the true star of the show. SOL texts are cut, lineated as thoughts and noted carefully. Every word has been placed with care. If you can’t appreciate the difference between these and unabridged texts, what you might come up with, or, god help me, translations, perhaps science or gym would be more suitable subjects for you to teach. I teach young people to think and speak, and I do it with vacuumed Shakespeare.