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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why Shakespeare? Why not Chaucer?  
[b]I’m also wondering how many of the vigorous supporters of reading Shakespeare have read any of his works beyond some academic requirement[/b], or have even gone to plays.  Is this an ongoing interest with ongoing support? Any Folger fans? [/quote]

I have read everything he wrote.  I reread plays during the summers.  In my years as an English teacher at a UK boarding school, I have taken many classes to the Globe to see live performances, and I often attend these just with friends.  I have been so grateful to engage with a programme via the educational team at the Globe, which sends their team to schools to lead workshops in acting Shakespeare with students.  Every year I direct a play at my school.  And I have a Ph d. in English Literature.

What are your credentials?
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Yale undergrad and a PhD in a social science — which is more than enough education to ask a very simple question about why some people are championing a particular recommendation. [/quote]

your efforts to make Shakespeare into just one “particular recommendation” in the study of English literature are totally absurd. Zero credibility. There are of course important questions about broadening the scope of what books are taught as “literature,” but from my vantage point, it’s already been broadened most places. way back in 1992 I was assigned both Native Son and Crime & Punishment for AP summer reading. [/quote]

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