No, I don’t teach. If I did we would spend time on things more important than teen angst in long past era ( yes I overly simplified it on purpose). There are many American authors, contemporary and past that deserve our attention. Thoreau, McCarthy, Rawls, Twain, Hemingway, I can keep going. There are more important works as well, federalist papers, the Bible (if even as a collection of parables), most dystopian works, civil disobedience, brothers Karamazov, crime and punishment, again there are too many to list. I know that these are touched upon, however they are given nowhere near the attention that they deserve. Shakespeare can piss up a rope. All that said, the modern assault on his identity is one of the more asinine things I’ve ever seen.

Edit: lol step in line and agree with us wrong thinker. We shall punish you with downvotes. Let me give you all a reason to downvote me. Shakespeare is for simple, overly emotional, morons. The depth of thought is of the most basic required for its reader. It is to literature what the McDonald’s cheeseburger is to cheeseburgers. Low quality yet recognizable.