The organization that oversees the museum celebrating the life of English playwright William Shakespeare, is reportedly working to “decolonize” his legacy in the name of fighting white supremacy.
Telecommunications Trust in the birthplace of Shakespeare, a British nonprofit in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, reported that it was working towards “decolonization” to “create a more inclusive museum experience.”
In recent years, British critics have scrutinized aspects of their history, even criticizing the use of the term “Anglo-Saxon” to describe the natives of England's nominated. Currently, Shakespeare is being scrutinized for alleged influences on colonialism despite his birth in 1564 and writing mainly plays that took place in Western Europe.
Museums warn that historic landscape paintings can evoke the “dark side” of “nationalist senses.”
Photographed late in the morning, the sky Henry Street shows William Shakespeare's Birthplace Museum in Stratford-on-Avon, England. (Christopher Farlong/Getty Images)
The process of stripping Shakespeare's work reportedly involves studying the “continued influence of colonialism” on world history and the way “shakespeare's work was involved in this.” The effort, which means distanced the work from a Western perspective, reportedly began after concerns were raised that Shakespeare's celebration would allow for “white supremacy.”
The Trust also warns that some items in the collections and archives relating to the iconic 16th-century playwright may contain “racist, sexist, homophobic, or other harmful language or depictions.”
Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust reportedly worked on a research project with Dr. Helen Hopkins at the University of Birmingham, and concluded that “shakespeare's praise as a universal 'genius' would benefit the ideology of white European hegemony. Their work further concluded, concluding that “colonial teaching” spread European ideas about art and used Shakespeare as a symbol of “the British cultural superiority” and “the British cultural superiority.”
A university that puts more than 200 trigger warnings on Shakespeare's writings
William Shakespeare's works are celebrated in the English-speaking world and beyond and taught in American English courses. (Universal History Archive/Uig via Getty Images)
Celebrating Shakespeare's work “he claimed to be part of the “white Anglo-centric, Euro-centric, and increasingly “West”-centric worldview that continues to do harm in the world today.”
One solution proposed by the project is to “present Shakespeare not as the “maximum” but as “part of an equal and different community of writers and artists around the world.”
Telegraph also reported that the trust is working to make Shakespeare's legacy more international by hosting events such as “Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and Bollywood Dance Workshops inspired by Romeo and Juliet.”
William Shakespeare's work is one of many historical textual bodies taught in classrooms that have been attacked to attack modern liberal sensibilities. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)
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