Not only is April 23 Saint George’s Day, the national feast of England, it is also the anniversary of both the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the finest poet that nation ever produced. But whereas today used to be a day to celebrate English heritage, and especially the Bard, ideological forces seek to turn the West away from this greatness. Just last month, for instance, the Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon announced that it would undertake to “decolonize” its collections because narratives about his genius “benefits the ideology of white European supremacy.” Student radicals on college campuses have taken up this argument as well, claiming that stripping Shakespeare’s works from syllabi and canons would somehow advance the cause of social justice.
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