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littlemissattitude · 14th July 2007, 07:33 PM

Okay...if Shakespeare is so irrelevant, I wish those who think so (obviously none of us so far in this thread) would explain to me why we read one of his plays (Othello) in a university literature course called "Popular Fiction", in which everything else we read was modern...and predominantly genre fiction, by the way. I think the oldest thing we read in the course of the class (one novel or play per week for 18 weeks) other than that was Fellowship of the Ring.

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littlemissattitude Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California Posts: 3,341	Re: Is Shakespeare Irrelevant... Okay...if Shakespeare is so irrelevant, I wish those who think so (obviously none of us so far in this thread) would explain to me why we read one of his plays (Othello) in a university literature course called "Popular Fiction", in which everything else we read was modern...and predominantly genre fiction, by the way. I think the oldest thing we read in the course of the class (one novel or play per week for 18 weeks) other than that was Fellowship of the Ring.