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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Immortal Sun" data-source="post: 7770964">Uh, no.Shakespeare is an example of work whose primary demographic has shifted over time.  This is not uncommon with media as changing views begin see the work as higher or lower quality than it was at some point in the past.  It's actually partly the subject of this thread, comics are being more widely seen as acceptable to read when older than 14 and people like Maher are struggling against the inexorable tide of changing culture to maintain their own biased and jaded views.Anyway...The YA section of a store (a section in which you will not find Shakespeare unless it's the YA rewrite, seriously, go to your local book store or library and look) includes books that were written for a modern YA audience, usually "tweens".  These books aren't necessarily harder or easier to read, but they contain material aimed at a certain demographic based on cultural norms.  They range from essentially being "comic books without pictures" to "well written books with themes society considers childish" (like supers).  They will often be populated with YA romance novels (translation: fade-to-black romance) or pretty much anything you'd see in a daytime soap in text format.Keep in mind that for all this threads last few pages of talk about "kids reading Shakespeare" they're doing it because they're ordered to do it, not because they want to do it.  Even the young adults that read it in college are more likely to be doing so because their Classical Lit 102 professor told them to go buy a copy, not because they actually thought "Hey, Shakespeare!  I want to read that!"TLDR: the YA section is not based on what YAs read but literature written at a certain level, in a certain style, containing certain themes and intended to be purchased by persons ages 12-22.</blockquote>

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