Dawn Sanders: Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ CEO on Creative NZ declining to fund Shakespeare festival - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

A concern the Bard of Avon has been unfairly slandered.

Creative New Zealand has declined a funding proposal for $31,000 towards the Sheila Winn Shakespeare Festival.

It's also called William Shakespeare's work part of a 'canon of Imperialism'.

Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ CEO, Dawn Sanders, says that's completely untrue.

She says the British Empire didn't exist in Shakespeare's time, so the description makes no sense.

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