And he was not only a commoner, he was a commoner in a slightly disreputable profession. Being a traveling actor was like being a minstrel or a juggler. Today Shakespeare is venerated—he's a ...

The suggested text list included the poetry of ... that exposure to Shakespeare was "always important", but having it as compulsory was a bit "random". Tinning said there was not enough New ...

Most people did not know whether they were reading ... In contrast, the five lowest-rated poems were all real, including Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31 and Chaucer’s Rondel of Merciless Beauty.