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  • BillyCarpenter
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    • Aug 2020
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    To be or not to be?


    William Shakespeare, thou hast been getting canceled.

    A slew of English literature teachers told the School Library Journal (SLJ) how they were ditching the likes of "Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet" to instead "make room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices."




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    Former Washington state public school teacher Claire Bruncke told SLJ she banished the Bard from her classroom to "stray from centering the narrative of white, cisgender, heterosexual men."
    "Eliminating Shakespeare was a step I could easily take to work toward that. And it proved worthwhile for my students," she insisted.
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    Other teachers said they were sticking with Shakespeare, but reframing his works through a more modern lens.


    Sarah Mulhern Gross, an English teacher at High Technology High School in Lincroft, NJ, said she was teaching "Romeo and Juliet" "with a side of toxic masculinity analysis."
    In her SLJ article, "To Teach or Not To Teach," librarian Amanda MacGregor acknowledged the Bard as a "genius wordsmith" responsible for "masterful wordplay, creative use of language, biting wit, puns, and innovative characters."
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