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University student Angela finds her worldview suddenly expanding
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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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