When we here about William Shakespeare, you first think about all of the plays, sonnets, and poems he has written about before he died in 1616. William Shakespeare died in 1616 after a few years after retiring from London to go to Stratford-upon-Avon. He had 38 known plays, 154 sonnets, and a few poems he had to his widow Anne Hathaway, His "second best bed." (Sun 2010). What really make his work relevant today is that we are still staging his works almost four centuries since his last quill to parchment. Shakespeare's plays have been performed in every language you can think of. His writes his plays, sonnets, and poems about people and people who were in the Elizabethan times. They were fallible, flawed, and had nobility, motivated by love and hate, courage and cowardice. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, they are teenage kids that fall in love despite of what their parents' want for them. In all of his years of writing, his themes play out in the world around us everyday. Shakespeare's themes in all of his work are what are relevant to us today. (Sun 2010). …show more content…
In my high school there was a lot of emphasis on the teaching and reading of Shakespeare. In ninth grade I read Romeo and Juliet. At first I thought why do we have to read and learn about Shakespeare, but the themes and other things it has behind in has meaning to us so we can use it in the world around us everyday. Pearson Education Inc., wants high school students to read Shakespeare more than half of the texts I am required in each year of school. After reading Romeo and Juliet in ninth grade, the years after that I read Hamlet, The Great Gatsby, Othello, Lord of the Flies, Things Fall Apart, and a few more too. So, the emphasis to do Shakespeare in my high school curriculum was a lot, but not less tangible than the technical skills education-policy framers seek to standardize. (Simmons