Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.

Two West Midlands primary schools have taken to the stage to mark the beginning of Shakespeare Week. The national series of events for school children celebrates the playwright, which organisers ...

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says it is to ‘decolonise its museum collections’ to tackle the claim that the playwright’s ‘legacy promotes white supremacy’ (National Portrait Gallery ...

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This follows a trend in which "the Globe Theatre in London ran a series of seminars titled Anti-Racist Shakespeare which promoted scholarship focused on the idea of race in his plays." We are told ...

To be — or most definitely — not to be. Regarded as the most influential writer in the English language, some of William Shakespeare’s work is now viewed by critics as racist, sexist and ...

The website's warning came after education experts at the theatre who intend to 'decolonise' Shakespeare's work also attacked the play for its misogyny. A major comic plot line is King Oberon ...

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is set to “decolonise” its extensive museum collections after research claimed the playwright’s legacy has been used to advance ideas of “white supremacy”.

Now, in part thanks to playwright William Shakespeare, the day lives in infamy ... At the conclusion of a play with an extremely complicated plot–one whose final scene is calculated to comprise 24 ...

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