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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the value of Shakespeare in the curriculum? Is it for your nostalgic reasons? Just because it’s always been done, does that mean it’s always been right? Do you want to still teach Columbus as a savior and hero?[/quote]

Wow, what an incredibly ignorant comment.[/quote]

Still haven’t heard a valid reason. Just because he because he “started” the English language does that mean that we don’t acknowledge one can learn the language and have proper command of the language without it? Seriously what’s a valid reason it’s required in your eyes?[/quote]

No, stupid, he didn't "start" the English language.  Shakespeare is, however, a revolutionary in early modern English.

But that isn't why we teach him.  We teach him because his plays present the psychology and dynamics of our human experiences like no other.  The fact that this work was produced hundreds of years ago underscores the unifying elements of what it is to be human.

I can't explain it in a clearer way if you haven't read or (most likely) didn't understand the Shakespeare to which you were exposed.
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Correct. Reading him puts my own life in perspective: across wide gulfs of time and culture, there is a shared human experience of hopes and passions and flaws and lusts and wit and tragedy and -- ultimately -- mortality.[/quote]

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