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Sonic the playwright (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sonic is designed to be highly recognisable and interacting with Sonic media necessary means you see Sonic a whole lot, even seeing just a few adverts for the franchise is already enough to make you remember it. Shakespeare's looks are known only on the basis of a couple of portraits, most of which are probably not even based on Shakespeare's looks directly, and they're all completely irrelevant for interacting with Shakespeare's work.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And considering there has been debate for years if Shakespeare was real....

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe Shakespeare was...

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Not amongst serious people though. Shakespeare's life is well documented but rather dull. He just happened to be a terrific observer of human behaviour

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Tbh if anything that debate probably contributed to Shakespeare's (and his images') prominence in popular culture rather than reduced it.