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English literature GCSE

What does the IET and the engineering community think of the English literature GCSE? Is it relevant or beneficial for engineering or is it (like food tech) something that hardly anybody cares about?


English literature is a near compulsory GCSE in England but is now optional in Wales where it has experienced quite a heavy decline in the number of secondary school students taking it.
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  • Alasdair Anderson:




    Arran Cameron:


    I don't believe that William Shakespeare actually wrote his plays although he may have wrote his poems which are very different in style from his plays.


    I think the real author of Shakespeare's plays was Elizabeth I as she was probably the only person at the time to possess the knowledge required to write them.


    Of course she also managed to fake her own death in order to continue writing plays such as King Lear, Coriolanus and the Tempest which can definitely be dated to later than March 1603, the supposed death date of Elizabeth I......


     




    Is there anything to say that these plays were written before her death and then published by her agent afterwards? There is also the other possible writer, the Earl of Oxford. !

    Would you not agree that English Literature is basically the study of other peoples creative thought processes and really should be consigned to a subsection of an A level Psychology syllabus.?


    Legh

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  • Alasdair Anderson:




    Arran Cameron:


    I don't believe that William Shakespeare actually wrote his plays although he may have wrote his poems which are very different in style from his plays.


    I think the real author of Shakespeare's plays was Elizabeth I as she was probably the only person at the time to possess the knowledge required to write them.


    Of course she also managed to fake her own death in order to continue writing plays such as King Lear, Coriolanus and the Tempest which can definitely be dated to later than March 1603, the supposed death date of Elizabeth I......


     




    Is there anything to say that these plays were written before her death and then published by her agent afterwards? There is also the other possible writer, the Earl of Oxford. !

    Would you not agree that English Literature is basically the study of other peoples creative thought processes and really should be consigned to a subsection of an A level Psychology syllabus.?


    Legh

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