Hell no! (In my own and deeply influential opinion
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Ah, man, how can they get rid of Shakespeare, he's a legend! I studied him all through secondary school (Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, various sonnets) then at A Level (Hamlet, Othello (loved those plays..)) then last year we studied two more of his texts in one of my modules (Richard III, The Tempest). And in preparation for my second year we were allowed to pick four modules from a list of options, one of which was a module all about the bard himself -- well, it's technically Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy -- and that was my first and immediate choice. And it seemed the same with much of the English group. Although I guess a few chose him because he's a 'comfort zone', one that everyone's done throughout school -- but for me it's because I just love the guy and his plays so much
(I'm quite sure we'll study Christopher Marlowe as well, WOOP!)