Should Shakespeare Be Taught In Schools

Shakespeare died 400 years ago. He is the only required author in the 9th grade Common Core. Why is that? Shakespeare is a world-known English, actor, playwright, and writer. He wrote 38 plays, poems, and sonnets. He is being taught in freshman English classes in high schools, and making these freshmen miserable. Shakespeare should not be included in the 9th grade curriculum because it is hard to understand, not relevant, and meant for the theatre and not a

Shakespeare is dead. Shakespeare is not relevant in today’s times. It is very boring for students to listen to the material, and only a certain type of personality can appreciate Shakespeare.

“For all but a few...reading Shakespeare is a form of torture” (Robshaw 402) and “few people realize how much englished has changed in the last generation” (Robshaw 401). Shakespeare was taught so long ago that the generation we’re in now is much different, so the students now days don't really want to learn it because it's so old. Our English teachers should teach more things that are of our generation than teach us about 400 years ago.

“I was young and missed the point entirely, was unable to behind the words and as it were, the diction, to what the poet was saying.” We live in a society today that if at first we don’t understand, then it’s not our fault it’s the author’s. I agree with Baldwin message of it being hard to understand without our own experiences to reflect on as we read Shakespeare different playwrights. Are we teaching Shakespeare too soon in schools? This can be debated with the fact that they may not have an experience that they can relate to Shakespeare work, which may lead to why so many American’s hated reading him in high school. The other side of this can be debated should schools be teaching Shakespeare earlier? As kids grow they can relate their experiences back to Shakespeare.

Shakespeare shouldn’t be taught in high schools, because shakespeare wrote his plays to be performed and not read and analyzed in a classroom. According to Tumiel, “His plays were written to be performed. He convinced in them what an audience needs to know… If we come at his plays from books and classrooms, we are doing it the wrong way.”

Many students often ask why we still study Shakespeare at school. Shakespeare is some 'amazing' poet and playwright who died a few hundred years ago. We know the popular classics like 'Macbeth', the ambitious Thane who snaked his way to the top of the pecking order by killing those closest to him. Though the answer to the question is quite simple. Shakespeare is valued in schools because he is a vital part of the English language. It is believed that by studying Shakespeare, students will achieve a balance of both modern and classic literature. You may think that Shakespeare is only for English but Shakespearean texts teach us values and about human nature. But what is it about 'Macbeth' that is valued in schools?

Shakespeare should be taught in High School, because it has good educational value. It still impacts us today as well as it did around the fifteen hundreds. Shakespeare has profoundly impacted the modern language, by creating new words. His work also gives us insight into how their lives were like during the years of William Shakespeare Many movies have based their work off of Shakespeare's.

In schools all over the country Shakespeare is being taught not only in high schools but also at the college level. My first thought of what to think of this is that Shakespeare shouldn’t be taught nearly as much as it is. There are various different sources severely less painful to teach and learn. But the more I researched and learned the importance of Shakespeare, the more I realized its benefits being taught in today’s society. Shakespeare's plays challenges students with difficult language and style, show a great connection to the knowledge of human behavior and offer a deep understanding into our society.

When you look around at the world today you have to ask yourself, would the world be the same without Shakespeare? Without him many of the cliches and words we use wouldn't exist. Even some of the books we read and the movies we watch wouldn't be the same without Shakespeare. William Shakespeare's plays should be in the 9th grade curriculum because they are still relevant to today's society.

Whether Shakespeare should continue to be taught or left in the past has been up for debate for years now. While some parties argue that Shakespeare's works should not be taught in schools because they are boring and difficult to read, other parties argue back saying that Shakespeare's work can help expand a student's vocabulary and that the storylines of the plays can be immersing. It has been argued that Shakespeare may also be able to help patients with dementia and depression. One party has even argued that Shakespeare's works are the birth of modern art today. There is also the party that claims Shakespeare’s works are what keep the brain excited because it can never predict what's going to happen next. Another party argues the Shakespeare’s

Shakespeare is often taught in schools from Year 9 and up, the Bard’s plays being studied in detail until the words jumble together and become meaningless.

One reason why Shakespeare texts should not been taught in high school is other text with different cultural backgrounds can be taught instead. While I do understand, Shakespearian text teaches much about the time period in which it was written but, this information can be taught in history class and not in an English class. In an article by The Washington Post, a teacher that talks about how there are more works of literature then Shakespeare that teach the same thing. When the author writes “Because, ‘she said, she doesn’t like his work and thinks that their other work of literature from

For as long as Shakespeare has been taught in English classrooms, talk of whether or not this curriculum is truly necessary or educational in any way has constantly been brought up. The typical complaint from the majority of students is that it is extremely strenuous to even begin to try and understand what Shakespeare is saying. Or the usual protest that it is so boring and pointless. Perhaps they are just overwhelmed when they stumble upon Shakespeare’s use of Old English or his sonnets that have deeply embedded messages about love. Whether you agree or not, learning about Shakespeare is an amazing way of presenting to students an unfamiliar form of English used to construct scenarios that would otherwise be found as cruelly embarrassing if it weren’t for Shakespeare bringing them to light in his works of art.

Shakespeare was well know for this, most notably for his play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Because it was normal to plagiarize, Shakespeare would have had no problem with taking ideas and plots from stories he’s heard. It is believed that he took the story of Hamlet from the story of Amleth, a danish prince from the year 1185 that has many similarities to the story of Hamlet: Uncle Feng murders his brother out of jealousy and marries Gerutha (Amleth's mother); Amleth pretends to be witless to save himself; his sanity is tested by the suspicious Feng; he is sent to England guarded by two of Feng's retainers, who carry a death letter; Amleth alters the letter to order the deaths of the retainers and his own marriage to the King's daughter; he returns to Jutland and, after a celebratory feast, burns the Great Hall full of drunken nobles and murders his uncle, avenging his father (Taylor). Except this is where the similarities end and Amleth's story goes on unlike the tragic ending of Hamlet’s. Shakespeare took characters, emotions, and events from Histoires Tragiques ( the french version of Saxo Grammaticus’ Amleth story) and this helped give him depth and characters that the audience could connect

Shakespeare was a man of many accomplishments. Many were in his writings; others were in his great director and playwright skills. The play Hamlet is one of the most re-created and re-written books to date. Hamlet is still being performed in theaters around the world. Even though many people perceive Shakespeare as a literary genius, we can not give him sole credit for his plays and sonnets.