Let us imagine a modern play where the female love interest is thirteen years old.
That’s not an interesting point about Shakespeare. That’s an interesting point about the Elizabethan era, when marriage and puberty were much more closely related than they are now.
ETA: The fact that we are turned off by different things than Shakespeare’s audience doesn’t say much about government censorship. It is possible that one could self-censor based on potential public censure, but that’s not the same thing as government censorship.
And I know it’s not a play, but Lolita is a modern age-inappropriate romance ETA: that is widely consider a classic of literature.
If any topic was dangerous to touch, it was religion. Shakespeare could not only touch it, he jumped on it with both feet and kicked it around.
I haven’t read all of Shakespeare’s plays, so I don’t know which play you are referencing.
That’s not an interesting point about Shakespeare. That’s an interesting point about the Elizabethan era, when marriage and puberty were much more closely related than they are now.
ETA: The fact that we are turned off by different things than Shakespeare’s audience doesn’t say much about government censorship. It is possible that one could self-censor based on potential public censure, but that’s not the same thing as government censorship.
And I know it’s not a play, but Lolita is a modern age-inappropriate romance ETA: that is widely consider a classic of literature.
I haven’t read all of Shakespeare’s plays, so I don’t know which play you are referencing.