/lit/ - Literature

>>7848385
>What makes Shakespeare drama better than Deadwood?
Bait taken.

TV shows like 'Deadwood' exist as a form of audio-visual nerve stimulation for a nation of Yoricks, who, much like the Elizabethans, needed something like a 'Titus Andronicus' to keep them entertained. Meaning entertainment that is vaguely historical, but also something that is able to keep the pace with the crudeness of the modern era, while pumping in all the latest propaganda.

Shakespeare was interested in real people; characters, types, stations of life, outlooks and motivations that go beyond survival, into the realm of the philosophic. A Shakespearean character could provide commentary on any belief, action, symbol, station, or object.... in such a way that it breathed life in the character's unique perspective.

Deadwood is about being the toughest sonuvabitch in the shithouse. It's the Old West streamlined for idiots and reformulated as a high school pissing contest.