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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 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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"...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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