(Nanette Asimov’s article appeared in the SF Gate, 4/23).
American academia is lowering the curtain on William Shakespeare more than 4½ centuries after his birth.
Happy 451st birthday, Bill.
A new study finds that English departments at just four of 52 top-ranked universities require English majors to take a course on the 16th century playwright and poet who is considered the English-speaking world’s greatest man of letters.
UC Berkeley is one of the four.
http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Shakespeare-getting-little-love-from-American-6217819.php