“‘A department of English,’ he said, ‘cannot exist without requiring, for its majors, at least one semester-long course in the study of Shakespeare. To require any less would be irresponsible; it is a dumbing down.’”That quotation is from The Shakespeare Requirement, Julia Schumacher’s novel about the lives of college professors. This is Schumacher’s second novel in a trilogy; one of my former students gave me a copy of it. In one of life’s odd coincidences, another student once gave me the … [Read more...] about Should We Still Require Shakespeare?
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
