UK schools are not rquired to teach any goyishe literature, and very few of them do, and someone here has spoken loshon haro about an entire country.
R’ leib gurwicz was born and bred in lithuania, and supposedly lost his first shtelle in england when he reffered to egypt as egg-whipped,so i cannot beleive he read, far less understood shakespeare. He was mechanech his sons, hage’oinim r’ avrohom and r’ chayim oizer sheyichyu with a brisker chinuch, and i find it hard to beleive that they can read shakepeare either.
I think this should be put on the leitzonus thread, and the person who suggested it be mekabel nidui, and ask mechila by his kever.