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Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!
All across America, colleges and universities are forgetting Shakespeare's birthday. In fact, they are forgetting Shakespeare himself: As ACTA's new study shows, the number of English departments that require their majors to take a Shakespeare course is vanishingly small, and is decreasing all the time.
Today, ACTA is honoring Shakespeare's birthday with an urge to remembrance--and an argument for his return to the list of required reading for English majors in America--with the launch of a new website, www.vanishing shakespeare.org. The site links to ACTA's new report, The Vanishing Shakespeare, as well as to a host of additional resources, including the Folger Shakespeare Library's new Shakespeare in American Life site, where you can listen to a radio documentary featuring ACTA president Anne D. Neal discussing the disappearance of Shakespeare from the college curriculum.
Posted by acta online at April 23, 2007 07:36 AM
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Thank you for bringing visiblity to this issue.
As a follow on we look forward (?) to learning how many history majors are not required to read the Federalist Papers.
Posted by: hb at April 29, 2007 08:11 PM