u/SadStudy1993

Shakespeare is 300 years old. Do you understand how absurdly fucking long that is? Nations, people, animals, companies, and kings have all risen and fallen a million times over. People were producing millions of new plays exponentially every year, and we are still talking about Shakespeare. Not to mention the fact that there were great playwrights from his time that did survive, like Marlowe, the fact that Shakespeare is a household name still isn't because no one else was writing good stuff, the stuff Shakespeare was writing is so good that we've been studying, performing, teaching, and interpreting his works for 3 centuries. Please, I beg of you, learn something before you start talking