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Topic subjectShakespeare did not speak to mixed classes...
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12703406, Shakespeare did not speak to mixed classes...
Posted by luminous, Tue Jan-20-15 04:09 PM
all his plays were about the royal court...

and what made his stories timeless was because he was retelling old stories


>regardless of the funding etc.... he (or whoever) wrote the
>plays knowing that the audiences would be of mixed classes and
>had to speak to them all. its what made the works so
>effective and ultimately timeless.