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Shakespeare is a fundamental principle in English education, let alone in many English courses over the globe. Merely brief attempts to gain familiarity with certain plays will determine how those works will be taught and read, and certain assumptions about how to read and write will be communicated - in particular those which treat him outside history, rather than as part of historical process. And anyway, Shakespeare is the archetypal Dead White European Male writer. 135