Was Shakespeare a snob?
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Shakespeare's Deconstructing Class
Shakespeare is obsessed and fascinated by class distinction. In the modern theatre with electric light, you put a light on the most on the person who speaks the most. He's he's laying them open on this open stage. The powerful actually have to rub shoulders with the powerless in a kind of wonderful sort of democratizing way.
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