Cast of ‘The Tempest’ Maligned As Culturally Inappropriate

By Charlotte Allen
Published March 23, 2017 2:16pm ET
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Cast of ‘The Tempest’ Maligned As Culturally Inappropriate
#ShakespeareSoWhite! Stanford University’s theater department has come under fire for neglecting to turn the Bard’s The Tempest into a social justice-warring morality play about racism, colonialism, Eurocentrism, cultural appropriation, victimization of Native Americans, and white supremacy. The student production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy about Italian nobles washed up on a mysterious island after a storm […]

#ShakespeareSoWhite!

Stanford University’s theater department has come under fire for neglecting to turn the Bard’s The Tempest into a social justice-warring morality play about racism, colonialism, Eurocentrism, cultural appropriation, victimization of Native Americans, and white supremacy.

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