Cambridge students warned Shakespeare plays may distress them

Didge wrote:Cambridge University academics have hit out at “trigger warnings” after students were cautioned that Shakespeare’s plays contain potentially distressing topics. English literature undergraduates have been advised that a lecture which focusses on Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors will include “discussions of sexual violence” and “sexual assault”.

The trigger warnings were published in the English Faculty’s “Notes on Lectures” document, which is circulated to students.

Gill Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at Cambridge University, said that the move will leave academics “very annoyed”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/10/18/cambridge-university-students-given-trigger-warning-shakespeare/

Lord Foul wrote:

Didge wrote:Cambridge University academics have hit out at “trigger warnings” after students were cautioned that Shakespeare’s plays contain potentially distressing topics. English literature undergraduates have been advised that a lecture which focusses on Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors will include “discussions of sexual violence” and “sexual assault”.

The trigger warnings were published in the English Faculty’s “Notes on Lectures” document, which is circulated to students.

Gill Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at Cambridge University, said that the move will leave academics “very annoyed”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/10/18/cambridge-university-students-given-trigger-warning-shakespeare/

AWWwww poor little snowflakes, guess they will need their "safe space rooms" after this brutal assault on their infantile sensibilities...

pffftttt, what have we wrought???

Fred Moletrousers wrote:Surely any finger pointing should be aimed at the head(s) of the English Faculty.

As an English Literature graduate I would, frankly have felt that I was being ridiculously (and insultingly)  patronised.

Mind you, that was a long, long time ago and things have changed......

Eilzel wrote:Agreed Syl. This is an utter non issue. So a single silly magazine issued a trigger warning. That's hardly enough to condemn an entire generation as so many of you are quick to do.

These are students at one of the most prestigious universities in the world we are talking about. They will obviously know the stories. Meanwhile, they'll be watching the ever so slightly more brutal actions of characters in A Game of Thrones and Walking Dead on TV, and then worse online.

Stop being so quick to judge, and if you ever want to point fingers for any 'failings' of younger generations, point them at yourselves