This is probably not the right forum to ask this, so I’m hoping someone will direct me to a good site where I might get an answer.
Some years ago I read a short story in a science fiction anthology. A high school English teacher needed (based on the demand of a parent) to teach one of Shakespeare’s play – I think Hamlet, but it may have been Macbeth. Before doing so she had to go through the play and delete any lines or sections to which any special interest group had lodged a complaint. In the end of course the play was just a few lines long. The story was told in a very light, humorous way.
Can anyone ID this story (or as I said, direct me to a site where someone may ID it for me)? My sister teaches at Cody High School, and currently ultra-conservative members of the community are going through their texts line by line and listing their objections, so I thought she’d get a kick out of this story.
Not exactly. If you click on the book titles on your first link, you’ll see that it is listed as Ado in (AFAIK) all publications except the anthology 2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers’ I have no idea why the editor of that book changed the title, but it seems to be the case.
“Ado” sounds too much like “Adieu,” French for “goodbye,” implying that the story might be a suicide note and thereby angering family members of suicide victims, so they had to change it.