Honour Killing in Shakespeare, by Loraine Fletcher

7th November: I've seen no response as yet from Professor Emma Rees to my invitation to explain what she thinks Antigonus' speech in The Winter's Tale is about, if it's not about female genital mutilation. She can't reply because she has nothing to say. Margaret Atwood's comment on why men fear women and women fear men is so well-known it's as lazy and banal as beginning with: ' It is a truth universally acknowledged......'. Her last sentence is meaningless, just a snide sign-off, and there's nothing in the review to suggest that she's more than flicked through my book, let alone that she could understand any speech by Shakespeare. Loraine Fletcher