Letter: Insidious disease that the Government is spreading

The Independent - London | January 19, 1994| | Copyright

Sir: I fully agree with James Fenton (17 January) that is hard to take Michael Portillo seriously as a rising moral philosopher of the right, when he clearly does not understand Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - if, indeed, he has read the play rather than (as one suspects) copying Ulysses's speech from some book of quotations. However, Mr Fenton omits to mention a further irony.

Shakespeare's source here was Sir Thomas Elyot's Booke Named the Governour ...

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