Commenting on the article: IMHO, Dickens belongs in the literature classes, not Shakespeare. Shakespeare should be studied in drama class (by presenting the plays).
I’d actually put Shakespeare (and most playwrights - August Wilson and Arthur Miller in particular) in history classes
To study Elizabethan era obviously - highlighting the contrast of learning through imagination vs learning through information-
But also to look at his takes on history and discuss unreliable narration and art as propaganda