Sir, – A letter writer (August 8th) critiquing my review of Elizabeth Winkler’s book Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (August 5th) demonstrates precisely the sort of prejudice the book attempts to address.
The letter writer is clearly not up to date with developments in Shakespeare studies.
All Shakespeare scholars now accept at the very least that the Stratford man did not write all of the plays and did not write many of them alone.
As Mark Twain wrote: “it is not what we don’t know that troubles us; it is what we know but isn’t so.” – Yours, etc,
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Prof WILLIAM LEAHY,
Lahinch,
Co Clare.
