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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I don't need a PhD to understand that teaching Shakespeare is racist.[/quote]

I don’t think it’s the actual literature that’s racist, as much as the people who think there is a need to ask about Shakespeare and cry if it’s only taught a little or not at all.

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huh? if English instruction doesn’t go deep into the foundation of texts and classics like Shakespeare, that’s a problem. The canon should be broadened not thrown away. And the idea that we shouldn’t teach Shakespeare because it is “too hard” is it’s own separate concern! [/quote]

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