The Tempest

On the year-1 roadmap. Editorial work hasn't started yet — vote to push it up the queue.

About the Universal curriculum

These are the universal canonical works — the Shakespeare plays, the Greek epics, the works that appear on every senior-year syllabus from Texas to Cardiff to Cork to Auckland. They don't sit on a single board's prescribed list because every board prescribes them. The Shakespeare tragedies (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello) anchor the Shakespeare paper on every UK and Irish board and serve as the de facto canon for AP Lit's open-question essays. The comedies and histories rotate in and out depending on department taste — A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night for the comedy-rich years, Henry IV Part 1 when a department wants to teach kingship and rebellion. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey sit upstream of the entire Western canon and surface in IB Lit's Time and Space area, in AP Lit's classical-context essays, and as foundational reading in any course that teaches Toni Morrison or Margaret Atwood or Derek Walcott well. Storgy's "Universal" coverage gives each of these works the same editorial treatment as a board-specific text — close reading, themes, character work, scene-by-scene scaffolds — without tying the page to one board's mark scheme. A teacher landing here is usually browsing across boards, looking for a richer angle on a work they've taught for years.