ABSTRACT
The Prince of Wales evidently intended to make the front pages with a speech at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1991. He spoke of ‘a general flight from our great literary heritage’, asking, ‘Do we really want to sanction a situation where children are rarely introduced nowadays to the literary masterpieces of bygone ages?’1 The speech was given the day before Shakespeare’s birthdayideal timing for the newspapers-and was extensively reported. In The Times it was the principal story on page 1, under the headline ‘Crusader prince attacks failings of education’; there was an edited text and reaction on page 2, with large pictures of the prince and the bard alongside each other; and an editorial on page 15.
