Authors HENRY BELL, Senior Lecturer in Performance, University of the West of Scotland STEPHEN COLLINS, Lecturer, University of the West of Scotland OVER the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for UK universities. This means recognising the legacy of western colonialism and rethinking the way we teach and research. Decolonising Shakespeare, with its historic links to English national identity, language and culture is a particularly knotty challenge. Shakespeare was writing in a country that had begun to trade in slaves just two years before his birth, and the racist attitudes that enabled…