Free speech advocate says the school treats individuals like” snow.”
A university in England has put over 200 set instructions on Shakespeare plays and alterations for things such as the “popping of kites”, violence, “psychological trauma”, “extreme weather”, and more.
The University of the West of England issued warnings for murder, murder, murder, and family stress in” Macbeth”,” as well as ‘ storms’ and ‘ serious weather’ in’ The Tempest,'” The Telegraph reported.
The university also placed a warning on a level version of” The Tempest” due to the “popping of bubbles”, while another work,” Much Ado About Nothing”, has been flagged for” treatment of women” and “mourning”.
For” Romeo and Juliet”, the school issued instructions for “death, murder, murder, swords and blood”, the outlet reported.
Further,” Individuals are warned that’ the Winter’s Tale’ has’ accusations of prostitution’ and ‘ references to wild creature attack”, the New York Post reported.
According to a university spokesperson,” students with sensory processing issues and trauma experiences were originally requested to receive warnings.”
Toby Young, a head of the Free Speech Union, said he would be upset if he were a student of drama at the university and had “be furious about being treated like such a snow.”
Another English school, the University of Exeter, has also recently faced investigation for its cause instructions on two classic pieces of ancient Greek literature, Homer’s” The Tale” and” The Odyssey”, The College Fix originally reported.
At the start of its” People in Homer” course, the college is now warning students that they might encounter “views and information that they may find unpleasant.” It cites styles of rape, physical assault, and child deaths in the two poems.
Similarly, Nottingham University has assigned Geoffrey Chaucer’s” The Canterbury Tales” a content notice for its “expressions of Christian faith”.
These cautions” show the feeble-mindedness of the liberal club,” a professor at Arizona State University told The Fix in November.
Nottingham even “banned the word Anglo-Saxon from its unit names”, The Telegraph reported.
” Professors renamed a master’s program in Viking and Anglo-Saxon studies to ‘ Viking and quick medieval English studies’ in a shift to ‘ decolonise the syllabus,'” the outlet reported.
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