The Bard's legacy is 'decolonised'

By Stephen Beech

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust wants to create a "more inclusive museum experience" for visitors to the buildings it owns in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, where the Bard was born in 1564.
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It follows its 2022 research project with Dr Helen Hopkins, of Birmingham University, which claimed that presenting Shakespeare as symbol of "British cultural superiority" benefits the "ideology of white European supremacy".
It advised that the trust should instead say he was part of a co...

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