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It's good to challenge English canon, for a variety of reasons: to open the post colonial literatures up to the world, to recognise emerging literary media and multimedia forms, to reflect changing attitudes and styles, language shifts, gender imbalances. It is — more importantly — vital to have your own preference, and not be led by convention or prescriptivism.
Not under any of the above circumstances, however, is Shakespeare grossly overrated. Sorry. He's that fucking good.
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