Why Frye High?

Frye's goal is to make literary criticism understandable to the average 19 year old intellectual. Judging by the great work of Glenna Sloan "Child as Critic", Frye's critical methods are accessible by the average grade 4-8 intellectual as well, truly literary critters. The Ontario Ministry of Education actually got it right when the study of archetypes was positioned in the Grade 9 curriculum. 

Frye definitely deserves to be placed in high school, as this post's title (and my play co-written with Frank Adriano "Northrop Frye High") suggests. Frye thought teachers were like drug pushers, dealing literary products guaranteed to blow the mind. That's one scene from my play I like to see realized:  The local high school pusher pushing "heroine" and "lines" simply by distributing not drugs but literary works by Shakespeare and other classic writers:  "Hey kid, you want some stuff, hard stuff, here, join me in doing some lines, perhaps a couplet from Juliet or Cleopatra."