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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some "woke" high school teachers, who presumably studied English in college, want Shakespeare to be treated as just another playwright.  A little bit more subtle than "toxic masculinity" and "cis white male" though:

https://disrupttexts.org/2018/10/25/5-disrupting-shakespeare/

The worst thing is this be done supposedly for the "benefit" of children of color and from immigrant families.

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The premise of this thread is that higher level literature curricula have been fundamentally compromised at such a massive scale that the OP needs help finding a program that hasn’t “succumbed.” And yet the links provided in support of this premise include an op-Ed by a student, a course description for a class in an entirely different department, and a an outsider effort by a small group to “disrupt” the canon at the high school level (paradoxically proving the point that Shakespeare remains canon).

Did I miss the hard evidence? The meta-analyses? If you’re actually well-educated, surely you know that one can cherry-pick small bits of “evidence,” then place these bits among a firehouse of unsubstantiated opinion and hand-wringing in order to present a completely distorted picture of reality.

Which seems to be what’s happening here. I cannot imagine why OP is wasting time and energy in this way, unless they are (a) addicted to outrage or (b) a useful tool of some other agenda.[/quote]

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