Letters: Talking with angels

Dave Simpson gives a fascinating account of Damon Albarn's opera Dr Dee (G2, 5 July), but he is wrong to describe John Dee as a figure "barely known outside academic circles before this unusual platform". Since the 1970s Dee has been frequently represented in popular and avant-garde art forms. He appears as a character in novels, for example, by Peter Ackroyd, John Crowley, Michael Moorcock, Dorothy Dunnett, Michael Scott Rohan and Phil Rickman, as well as in the graphic novels of Neil Gaiman an...

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