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Originally Posted by myriverse
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LOL! Open a history book. Any one will do. Shakespeare's plays, even the tragedies, had a hefty dose of romanticism to them and glossed over what life was really like. They were all candy-coated daytime soaps of their day that were meant to take people away from the horror of their lives (they were written for the illiterate--really, really illiterate-- masses of the day). Today, practically everybody lives a dream compared to anything in the Middle Ages, so naturally, they want to be taken away to the gloom.
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Shakespeare is 16th/17th century. Thats 100 years after anything considered medieval/middle ages. Why would people watch a candy-coated daytime soap to take away from the horror of their families lives 100 years ago? I'm not arguing that his depictions might be a bit romanticized, but this is the renassiance era, nearly the enlightenment era we are talking about, given the lifespan of a human back then the people watching the Shakespeare plays were 2-3 generations removed from the middle ages. Maybe you should open a history book.