Brian Blessed blasts ‘ignorant pigs' who put trigger warnings on Shakespeare plays
The thunderous-voiced thespian labelled theatre bosses 'ignorant pigs'.
The Sun told of Hamlet audiences being warned of 'coercive behaviour' and 'grief, suicide and mental illness' at London's National Theatre.
There have also been warnings about Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
Flash Gordon star Brian, 88, has appeared in Henry V, Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing.
He told a sci-fi convention: 'It's bs. It's f***ing Shakespeare.
'He is the greatest writer on the planet.
'People see his plays the length and breadth of this country and they are full of amazing things.
'There are so many ignorant pigs around.'
To hammer his point home, Blessed then quoted a famous line from The Tempest adding: 'Prospero said 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep'.'
It means our short lives are fleeting like dreams and therefore not real - just like the action people see in plays on a stage.
Blessed made a name for himself after appearing in movies Flash Gordon, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as well as on TV shows Z-Cars, Blackadder and I, Claudius.
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