Experts have considered William Shakespeare's plays "controversial" because of their reference to the connection between skin whiteness and beauty, according to the Daily Telegraph. According to the publication, the London Globe Theater has launched a series of seminars called "Anti-racist Shakespeare" aimed at "decolonizing" the author's plays and removing obstacles that may interfere with their perception or performance.

In the first workshop of the cycle, scholars "deconstructed" the comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and discovered "controversial gender and racial dynamics." Experts, in particular, said that in Shakespeare's poetry, a “binary system of opposing the dark and the light” is being created, in which the dark is assigned a negative role, and the white or “light” is a positive one.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/21/shakespeares-language-could-racially-problematic-globe-theatre/

Expect more to come.