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re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers”
Posted by: FortPeck 11:44 pm EDT 04/09/23
In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - ryhog 02:00 pm EDT 04/09/23

I would say it's the ultimate in presumptuousness to alter the words of a deceased author and present them to the world as his. (Sure, they own it and have the right to do it.)
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re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers”
Posted by: ryhog 01:18 am EDT 04/10/23
In reply to: re: Martin McDonagh Says Theatres Have Refused His Plays, Calls It “A Dangerous Place For Writers” - FortPeck 11:44 pm EDT 04/09/23

I very clearly understood that from your prior post. :-)

I wonder, though, why you presume it is presumptuous. In the theatre at least, I am familiar with writers who have settled their literary estates with instructions to keep their words as resonant as much as possible in the future. Not everyone, to be sure, but a lot of writers nowadays spend a lot of time pondering these questions just as they answer the easier ones like what grandchild will wear that broach instead of putting it in a drawer.

Curious about one more thing: do you object to the alteration of the words in the Bible?
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