Drama students are warned of suicide in Romeo and Julia after a university has made more than 200 trigger warnings about the works of Shakespeare.
The University of the West England (Uwe) has published warnings of “blood” and “psychological trauma” as well as “storms” and “extreme weather” in Macbeth and “Storms” and “Extreme Weather” in the storm.
A theater show by the shipwreck game was emphasized to contain the “bang of the balloons”.
A total of 220 warnings were added to the works and adjustments of the bard on stage and on the screen, which contained representations on BBC and ITV, as reported by the sun.
For Macbeth, in which a Scottish general plunges the king through murder, there are warnings of murder, suicide, violence, knives and family trauma.
Romeo and Julia, whose title characters kill themselves, should contain death, suicide, violence, knife and blood.
Elsewhere, much about nothing “treatment of women” and “grief” are characterized as potential problems.
In response to this, Toby Young, the head of freedom of speech Union: “If I were a drama student at the University of England, I would be angry to be treated like such a snowflake.”
A spokesman for Uwe based in Bristol said: “Students were previously requested by students with sensory processing problems and experiences with trauma.”
It is the latest example for universities that use trigger warnings about the content of courses.
In November, biology students from the University of Reading were warned that they could see disturbing images of the human body on their course.
The University of Nottingham warned in October ahead of Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales of “Expression of Christian Faith”.
Two months earlier, the same university also banned the term Anglo -Saxon report from their modules. Professors named a master course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon studies in “Viking and early medieval English studies” in order to “decolonize the curriculonization”.
They also come in the middle of a growing number of trigger warnings that are placed in theater shows.
In December, theater goers were warned of “alcohol abuse” in the Pirates of Penzance Show of the English National Opera.
Such Moves prompted lady Judi Dench to strike out of trigger warnings.
The actress said that theater visitors who need warnings about performances should stay at home after she had learned that some were available for a number of Shakespeare pieces.
Uwe was addressed for a comment.