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Theatre in Shakespeare's England was both mass entertainment and mass education, which made it politically dangerous enough for elite suspicion and Puritan prohibition.
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Theatre
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...into some brief history about Shakespeare. During the time of Shakespeare, theatre is extremely popular around the country. And theatre is primarily the means..."
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"...into some brief history about Shakespeare. During the time of Shakespeare, theatre is extremely popular around the country. And theatre is primarily the means..."
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"They hate alcohol, they hate fun, they hate theatre, especially theatre. They hate Shakespeare. So they banned it. So during this time, Shakespeare is..."
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"...This is before cinema. So you can put in music, paintings, theatre, poetry, philosophy, everything together to create one total art that will inspire..."
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"So what they do is, they force all the theatre productions to be placed in the suburb of London. And that's where Shakespeare is..."
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"...masses, he's educating the masses into a global imagination. Shakespeare in theatre is so detested by the upper class that from 1642 to 1660,..."
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"...Bacchae, it's a satire on the power of Dionysus and of theatre in general, OK? It's a direct criticism of the festival of Dionysus...."
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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