Dead White Males is a 1995 play by David Williamson.
[1] It was written in response to an academic paper on post-structuralism that Williamson found incomprehensible.
The appearance of William Shakespeare features as a motif throughout the play.
[2] Williamson later recalled he was inspired by listening to an academic at a writers conference on whom he based Dr Grant Swain: [He] got up and told us in a very condescending way that we were all idiot savants, that we didn't know what we were writing, the ideological currents of the time just passed through us and we channelled this ideological content and out it came.
And that was the motivation for...and I still think it's one of my favourite bits of work because I do think a lot of post-modern and post-structuralist theory is frankly bullshit.