Shakespeare is getting kicked out.

The College Fix reports.

Campus reading room makeover replaces Shakespearean images with authors of color

The English Reading Room at California State University Northridge is undergoing a facelift in the name of diversity.

Campus leaders have agreed to replace four illustrations from Shakespeare’s and Chaucer’s works – images from King Lear, Hamlet, the Canterbury Tales, and Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare – with portraits of authors of color. A cracked portrait of Henry Fielding will also be removed to make way for the new portraits.

Though illustrations depicting scenes from the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare will be removed, portraits of the two writers will remain up.


 
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