For many years, I avoided teaching “Othello.” I believed that the play, riddled with ethnic slurs and slights, was too much of a land mine and risked distracting students from Shakespeare’s genius.
In recent years, however, “Othello” has become one of my favorite plays to teach. I’ve come to see that the uncomfortable elements don’t reduce but support the author’s greatness. I can think of no better way for members of our polarized society to achieve a more compassionate view of each other, and of history more generally, than...
If you even have a choice of assignment in college don't do Hamlet...🐍
Good luck with that professor, I expect the petitioning has already begun to shut you down.
What could a white man ever know about compassion much less teach anyone? I feel sorry for you having to try. Wait, did you just trick me? You. You.
The same could be said for Shylock's monologue in the Merchant of Venice
Actually he was very ahead of his time.
Great someone wants reparation from Shakespeare... 😂