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[quote=Anonymous]There's definitely cringeworthy material within Shakespeare. It does include colonialism, slavery, racism, monarchy, murder, betrayal, suicide, elder abuse, war crimes, witches and monsters. I mean, not thinking too hard here, those are things you want to not just casually jump into with kids. Also, love, fairies, twins, and mistaken identities, but yeah, get kids ready for what they're gonna read.

It's great literature. It's also hard for most people to understand even if philologists and historians group it with modern English. I frankly think most English majors struggle with grasping every word, so people with a vocabulary mismatch - not scaffolded up to it or coming from another language background - are going to seriously struggle.

Shakespeare is also not the only way to teach concepts of drama. The "canon" is bigger than one playwright or time period; Americans have been writing plays for 300 years. If there are easier alternatives, they are not wrong for the context.

But who knows. Double, double toil and trouble; comments burn and trolls bubble.
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