“Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!” Shakespeare’s Birthplace to be “Decolonized”

“Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!” Shakespeare’s Birthplace to be “Decolonized”

In Hamlet, William Shakespeare famously wrote, “To thine own self be true.” The problem is when others want to present a different “truth” long after you are gone. Shakespeare is under an unrelenting attack in the United Kingdom from trigger warnings to censoring his prose. Now, Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust has announced that it will “de-colonise” the Bard. In the name of creating “a more inclusive museum experience,” the Trust is moving away …