/lit/ - Literature

Reading challenging texts is the literary equivalent of running with ankle weights on.

When you have to read simpler more modern texts, your comprehension is vastly improved.

When will plebs learn?

Also, what's this progressive teacher going to assign instead? Poppy Z. Brite? The SCUM manifesto?

Also, very few of Shakespeare's plays are actually set in England, which goes to show that this wench complaining about the lack of cultural diversity in Shakespearian texts probably hasn't actually even read any of them.

I did Shakespeare in high school (Romeo & Juliet) and whilst I didn't hate it, I wouldn't say that I had a staunch lexigraphical hard on for it. But when I went back to the Bard later on I enjoyed him immensely. Would I have ever bothered to read Shakespeare if I had listened to people like the harlot in OP's link? Probably not.

We also did Iain Banks in School (Scotland) which was pretty cool.