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— Jeanette Winterson"We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now."
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
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Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
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