To the Editor:

Re “Amid Cheers, Some Scholars See an Airbrushed ‘Hamilton’ ” (front page, April 11):

Lighten up, scholars.

Didn’t Shakespeare fool around with historical “truth”? Was Richard III really as evil as the playwright painted him? Scholars say no. So what?

You don’t go to a Broadway musical to be educated about the nuances of historical facts or the contradictions in the personality of a particular human. You go to be entertained.

I’ll go to see it yet.

ANNE BERNAYS

Cambridge, Mass.

The writer, the novelist, teaches fiction writing at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation.

To the Editor:

Although the play “Hamilton” does not give African-Americans their historical due, it is yet another example of how political correctness distorts contemporary culture.