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Charles Littrell's avatar

Regarding the W.E.B. DuBois quote and Dumas, readers may be interested to know, if you didn't already, that Dumas Pere's grandmother was an African slave by way of the Caribbean. His father was a "raised man" in Napoleon's army, eventually rising to general.

Regarding the article, we are seeing the same thing in live theatre. The movement in many quarters for 50/50 gender representation among playwrights means that male playwrights compete with Shakespeare, Chekhov, and all the rest, while female playwrights usually compete with...each other. So half our performed plays come from only one generation of authors.

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Peter Partee's avatar

Spot on. Diversification of available literature is ALWAYS a good thing, but doing so at the expense of preventing access to the classics is manifest error and will be seen twenty years from now as just another ridiculous intellectual fad.

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