START: Angela: It only takes a close loo...

Dead White Males

Angela Judd Grant Swain

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START: Angela: It only takes a close look at the texts to show conclusively how conservative and patriarchal Shakespeare is. Why do people refuse to acknowledge it?

Swain: There’s a huge Shakespeare industry worth billions of dollars Angela.

Angela: Why him? There were far better and more radical playwrights in his era like Marlowe and Webster and Middleton.

Swain: If the patriarchy is going to turn a writer into a profitable industry, the last thing they want is a radical.

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END: Swain: The Valhalla is showing Godzilla Versus the Smog Monster, which I’m told is an hilarious deconstruction of post war American foreign police.

Angela: I think I’d better work on the essay.

Swain: When you’ve got a clear space?

Angela: I’d love to.

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