So given that he’s our greatest ever writer how should we teach Shakespeare in schools? Look at the text? Do it as drama? Read story accounts of the plots? Or, maybe, just maybe, you quietly think that it’s all a bit outdated, old fashioned and irrelevant so you sideline it as much as you can.
The late Michael Bogdanov (1938-2017) a controversial but highly respected director of Shakespeare was on record as saying that he didn’t think it should be done in schools at all because teachers ruin it for – actually one of the most exciting and powerful plays Shakespeare ever wrote – into a miserably dreary O level chore.
