I have spent several weeks preparing to lead a weekly after-school club on Shakespeare. In the process of doing so, I have returned to some of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets with the perspective of a teacher. Perhaps to read Shakespeare is always, in some way, to read as a student.…
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