Scholars are never satisfied when they see their specialized subjects
turn fodder for stage, screen, or novels.... But can that sacred turf
ever be fully reclaimed once its invasion has been so publicly observed
and, worst of all, when the disreputable artistic distortion of fact
has been rapturously received by the laity as an improvement on the
arid original? Scholarly exactitude may command its tens of admirers,
but poetic license hath its tens of thousands.
-- Paul Lawrence Rose. "Frayn's 'Copenhagen' Plays Well
at History's Expense" The Chronicle of Higher Education
5/5/2000, p.B4