![]() Shakespeare’s works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir. ![]() But should all that ensure him a spot in the curriculum in perpetuity?īen Jonson, Shakespeare’s contemporary and fellow playwright, asserted that Shakespeare was “not of an age but for all time.” But he was very much of his time. The plays, sonnets, and poems the Bard wrote in his lifetime (1564–1616) are mainstays of the high school English syllabus. His masterful wordplay, creative use of language, biting wit, puns, and innovative characters and plots have delighted generations of readers and made a lasting impact on literature and the English language. Shakespeare was a genius wordsmith who created engaging works that spoke to the human condition, psychology, and identity. ![]() Here’s a sentence we couldn’t write without William Shakespeare, who invented or introduced nine of these words:Īsk if Shakespeare’s time-honored works and syllabus fixtures should be bumped to embrace the multitudinous other writers and you get hostile, fretful, quarrelsome, or sanctimonious reactions. ![]() English teacher Elizabeth Neilson uses an array of references to keep Shakespeare fresh.
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