Members of the Mercersburg men's cross country team gather at the Mercersburg Invitational for a quick snapshot.
January 12, 2008 10:00 PM
The Relevancy of Shakespeare Today
Now that we are into the 21st century, it should surprise no one that Shakespeare remains relevant. Just recently, as my AP students and I probed Othello, Lear and Hamlet, the relevance struck me mightily. The first point I should makes stems from the fact that spending time with more than one play at a time truly enriches the experience enormously. One accrues a sense of repeated themes, preoccupations of the poet, and the ongoing skepticism with regard to language he possesses. In fact, Shakespeare, like his surrogate Hamlet, trusts little in the external world, because his gut tells him something is ill with it. And therein, we know that Shakespeare is, indeed, still relevant.
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