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Academics say degree of sensitivity will 'curtail academic freedom'

Cambridge University students given trigger warnings for Shakespeare plays


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By -- Independent —— Bio and Archives October 19, 2017

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Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Lavinia, William Houston as Titus Andronicus and Dyfan Dwyfor as Lucius Tony Larkin/Rex Features Academics have criticised "trigger warnings" after Cambridge University students were warned about "potentially distressing topics" in plays by Shakespeare. English literature undergraduates were apparently cautioned that a lecture focusing on Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors would include "discussions of sexual violence" and "sexual assault". -- More...



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