/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6412898]

Why did he write so much about cuckoldry?

[Anonymous No.6412901]

Because women are whores.

[Anonymous No.6412909]

>>6412898
We know almost nothing about Shakespeare.
It's not even assured that the picture in your post is actually him...but rather, taken for granted.

[Anonymous No.6412918]

>>6412898
Shakespeare was writing for an educated and educating male urban audience denied access to marriage and engagement, who only had recourse to whores. He was writing for legal scholars and lawyers, who much like today's online community of impotent young men, were opinionated shits.

Cuckoldry was a European point of humour, that everyone knew that the husband was cuckolded but him—a classic comedic set-up.

Combine the repressed sexuality of a large community of men who wanted to fuck women, with this comedic gold, and Shakespeare puts sex on stage to entertain his public.

In the Elizabethian theatre, women and girls were trapped by the way.

[Anonymous No.6412922]

>so much

You mean like two or three times?

One theme he did write about a lot was doubt and how doubt corrupts. It's no wonder the Christian exegeses is so plentiful.

[Anonymous No.6413263]

>almost half the stories involving cucking

[Anonymous No.6413518]

>William, can you hear me?
>is your portal working?
>I got some new ideas
>need you to write about cucks