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The 1590s? Do you think Shakespeare was the only one writing plays and sonnets for Tudor mass consumption? Heck, do you think Homer was the only poet to ever d
by bregma 3y ago
The 1590s? Do you think Shakespeare was the only one writing plays and sonnets for Tudor mass consumption?
Heck, do you think Homer was the only poet to ever don a toga way back in the day?
- Apocryphon 3y agoI’ve always wondered about that. Yeah, you can objectively say Shakespeare was a master of the written word based on how many new words and phrases he coined and all that, but who are we to otherwise judge the qualitative merits of Elizabethan writing? How does a modern gauge whether Christopher Marlowe or any other contemporary authors are any better or worse than the Bard himself? What if there were other plays that were superior but simply got lost to history?
- inimino 3y agoAs an ancient Greek, Homer would certainly never have worn formal clothing of a civilization that did not yet even exist...