One suspects that if these particulars were ever stated plainly (as didn't happen in TFA, for instance), many modern published "novels" would be found to lack t

One suspects that if these particulars were ever stated plainly (as didn't happen in TFA, for instance), many modern published "novels" would be found to lack them? It may be that the line was drawn here, and no further, merely because Elizabethan English is difficult for modern readers. Otherwise we'd realize that any written language has novels as a matter of course.