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Dead white females?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: As a failed novelist, playwright, screenwriter, poet and basket-weaving essayist, I lack the requisite sense of irony to do anything other than write to object in the strongest possible terms to Fred Blanks' terrifying suggestion (September 2004) that Shakespeare did not technically write the plays that carry his byline, nor Mozart his operas, Bach his fugues, and so on, presumably until all Dead White Males have been repositioned in their proper historical places by their far more talented female halves. Quite frankly, Mr Blanks--who I strongly suspect is himself an embittered woman writing in ...
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