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A lot of times, teachers aren't teaching Shakespeare to expand vocabulary or know how to read Shakespeare- because the language itself isn't applicable to today. We still read the plays because of his characters and plots and there's a lot for students to learn through them, and also because when you know the basics of Shakespeare, you pick up on a lot of things in the literature that followed him. So reading a graphic novel isn't a bad thing. It's a case of quality over quantity- is it more important for the student to have a quality understanding of the text or is it more important for them to spend time slaving through a language that just isn't used anymore? There's so much other literature out there that they need to read. Plus, we shouldn't keep doing things just because that's the way it has always been done.
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