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Macbeth

The Classical Mind

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The Importance of Reading Shakespeare

I think if you actually think about what most college English curriculum are like, the odds of me reading Macbeth probably would have decreased the more that I studied this. We had a few very, in my undergraduate institution, we had a few professors who clearly loved the canon and you could sort of tell from the stuff. There was a professor,. I took her course on the historical linguist to the English language, she also taught a whole class called the Bible as literature. It was just based on the King James Bible. She was the one who we also had a Beelah scholar in my undergrad department. But there would have been people who did teach it, but most classes that

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