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Why Do We Read Shakespeare?

1. Shakespeare is undeniably one of the greatest authors/playwrights in history. How could students receive a quality education without studying someone so influential to the English language. It is a valuable learning experience.

2. It makes you smarter. All reading is good for your brain, but reading something as syntactically complex as Shakespeare’s writing is especially good for your brain. It’s difficult for many to comprehend at first because you’re basically learning an entire new way of reading. It is strengthening your mental capacity.

3. Not everything that we learn in school is meant to be used in daily life. Of course, very few people find general Shakespearean knowledge to be useful. However, sometimes the value in learning something is not literal, but can be found in the experience and how it affects our mind. Someone who studies and really learns Shakespeare will develop mental synaptic connections that someone who doesn’t study Shakespeare will not have. To say that more simply, learning something that you find difficult will make you an overall smarter person.

4. Once you get past the difficulty of the writing-style (which DOES become easy to read, after awhile) there are great stories and lessons to be learned in the works of Shakespeare. All of the themes he wrote about are still relevant today; love, hate, greed ambition, etc. Most literature, movies, songs, etc. stem from themes that Shakespeare developed; so it adds to your common/worldly knowledge.

5. Shakespeare, probably more than anyone else, is responsible for so many of the word nuances, figures of speech, and the word abstracts of the English language.

6. There is Knowledge and there is Knowledge. Indeed, as you learn to read Shakespeare, you are learning to read the world. As you interpret Shakespeare's characters, you are practicing figuring out life's characters. Struggling with the complexities involved in interpreting Shakespeare is a superb preparation for struggling with the complexities of life. 

7. Getting to know Shakespeare is getting to know where your ideas come from; and getting to know where your ideas come from is a fairly profound way of getting to know yourself.

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