“Shakespeare is for all students: of all ability levels and reading levels, of every ethnic origin,” states Peggy O’Brien, the head of education at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which is the chief repository for Shakespeare scholarship and education in the United States and England. Yet the teaching of Shakespeare has been somewhat limited to children in gifted and talented programs as well as high school and college level programs, effectively excluding a wide range of young people. In the foreword of a text designed to instruct elementary teachers in Shakespeare, Fred C. Adams responds to
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