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Bromwich attributes Shakespeare's imaginative range to his knowledge of many kinds of people and institutions, especially London, the theater, aristocrats, soldiers, and court-adjacent life.
He says the sonnets show Shakespeare deeply impressed by aristocratic posture and experience, especially around Southampton, while also remaining wary of aristocratic self-deception and social manipulation.
Jiang describes the Festival of Dionysus as a recurring, free, citywide theater institution in which aristocrats funded plays and Athenians treated theatergoing as a birthright.
"...knowledge of the court at a tangent, his knowledge of some aristocrats, his knowledge of people who had fought in battles, his knowledge of..."
"...um the different uh quality of experience that he found among aristocrats and the aristocrat Southampton that he is dealing with in some of..."
"...you something about his um his attitude toward a lot of aristocrats which is which is careful uh and admiring and wary um it..."
"Theater was the form, the basic structure of Athenian society. So there are two months of the year when everyone went to the theater,..."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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