ethnianmandarin:

quoms:

gowns:

i had a depressing thought last night when we were flipping through the channels and saw a rerun of seinfeld….. do you think that like 400 years from now people will think of seinfeld as this era’s shakespeare? because they like invented certain terms and had observations about the times, comedy of errors, etc? a woefully mixed up interpretation, but that’s how it could seem to future humans who would be totally media-and-pop-culture-addled. 

[i guess the really depressing thought here is, what if shakespeare was actually his era’s jerry seinfeld. like, what if he spent the latter half of his life just ripping into sensitive snowflakes and talking about horse and carriage models with whoever would listen.]

Playwrights in Passenger-Carriages Getting Profiteroles

for anyone to Be Shakespeare there would have to be a future polity (whether national or organised on some futuristic world system on another basis) who needs to come up with a dramatist from history from whom they can reasonably descent, take as their totem, and who is similar to other dramatists. the actual circumstances of Shakespeare do not really matter