Shakespeare’s Macbeth Branded as Racist for Themes Like ‘Darkness’
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been accused by an academic hosted by the Globe Theatre of being “racialised” with references to “darkness”.
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been accused by an academic hosted by the Globe Theatre of being “racialised” with references to “darkness”.
Shakespeare’s King Lear really centres around the “destructive potential” of “whiteness”, an academic hosted by the Globe Theater claimed.
A theatre group has vowed to make their production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus more obviously racist in the hopes of highlighting the Bard’s alleged bigotry.
French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has added a trigger warning before a production of the Bard’s famed Tragedy of Julius Caesar.