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From the article: “Other teachers said they were sticking with Shakespeare, but reframing his works through a more modern lens.”
This “modern lens” rubbish, and subjective reasoning have destroyed our educational system. It is just as bad, if not worse than, cancelling Shakespeare altogether.
The notion that texts should be studied within the context they were produced is dying. I was taught “text and context” and that is what I teach. And, frankly, I have happily found that there are still a number of students who appreciate, crave and gravitate toward this approach.
Contemporary values have no bearing on historical texts. They must be understood and interpreted, as much as is possible, with the author’s original intent in mind (a system of textual analysis that correlates with constitutional originalism in its purest sense).
That our young people in these godforsaken public school systems are being denied objective readings of Shakespeare, or access to the sublimity of his prose and poetry, is a crime against Western Civilization. But I suppose that is the point.