All That Glisters is Not Gold: Finding Relevance in Bard's Quest for Truth
Faculty member Matthew Kearney teaches his AP students Othello, King Lear, and Hamlet. The common themes emerging from those texts, Kearney suggests in a recent blog, represent the timeless complexity and nuance of the human condition. Where is essence in a world of glitter?

“As we do live in a world of appearances and surfaces and ‘the visual moment,’ Shakespeare can teach us a lot about how to decode what is authentic and what is not,” Kearney writes, “with a real predilection toward skepticism toward all appearances whatsoever.

“Bump this up against a culture in which our students are forever bombarded with images that are merely surface with little substance and one can see that a dose of Shakespeare may be a singular inoculation against the superficiality with which they must contend.”

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