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The head of a teaching union says the English curriculum should not be dominated by "dead, white men". Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, described Shakespeare as an “intensely conservative writer who wrote a lot of the time to bolster the divine right of kings — so you need different voices in that". Does the curriculum need to be modernised or do the great authors still have something to teach us? (Image: portrait of William Shakespeare; credit: Getty Images)