Schools focus too much on Shakespeare. Most people are going to have studied very few plays from the past 400+ years; a large chunk of those are going to come from just one man.<p>Just to pick one example, Marlowe seems to have been considered to be at the same level as Shakespeare by their contemporaries; however, I&#x27;ve met few people who have read his stuff (or can even name his stuff). And that&#x27;s picking someone from the same time period and same country. Imagine how many authors across the world and from a period of hundreds of years most of us have missed out on.