Shakespeare is not just the domain of English lessons and can be used to tackle a wealth of issues across school life. Drawing on the work, resources and expertise of Shakespeare’s Globe, Georghia Ellinas explains more

Shakespeare’s death was hardly marked 400 years ago. Would the audiences who watched his plays appreciate that his works would be watched by so many today, be studied around the world and used in schools to address a range of academic and social issues? The answer would most probably be no.

We are often asked why students in England are forced to study the works of a writer who has been dead for 400 years and who was writing for an Elizabethan audience, many of whom who were barely literate and most of whom had never travelled beyond London or had been to school.

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