Sometimes, however, even English teachers are nervous of this. They turn to other approaches, for example to approaches based on author’s intention. Thus we ask what did Shakespeare want us to think about this play? Rather than How did this play affect you? And yet other approaches favour historical context. If you understand the Elizabethans, you understand Shakespeare. One of the problems with the UK Secondary Frameworks and QCA criteria is their attempts to objectify the unobjectifiable.