I assume when listeners hear the name Shakespeare, many listeners quickly ignore any further references to Shapespeare.
Media stories are an often felt as not confusing positive reinforcement, distraction from reality stories which are mostly enjoyed experiences: movies; news media; entertainment media, many stories I believe follow Shakespeare's theme scripts: murders conspiracies; murder investigations; relationship bonding; political scandals.
What story lovers may not realise is that stories have very little thinking comparison to our own lives. Old histories are out of date compared to modern life. Modern families have: rent payments or mortgage servicing; employment issues to consider; children's quality and direction of education which could be evaluated yet I dare to say life goes on day after day without a plan or complaint. When selective media present stories about modren life problems, a single story example is shown which doesn't always fit in with people's problems and/or any solutions are short on details, often recommending a phone number if any person requires help.
I suggest that Shakespeare palys are guide lines for future story script writers and story tellers to write and directors to direct performances, distracting human's from being prompted to think about there own life direction. As religious leaders were concerned about maintaining power over populations using promising afterlife rewards in heaven, I speculate as societies became more modern, people become less willing to believe after life lies. As protestants rejected Catholic children's stories sometimes with violent consequences, new stories were invented and credited to a ghost writer named Shakespeare. A guard shaking a speare is an act of threatening the person approaching the guard.
Most Shakespeare stories are about rich people nobility murder greed politics, Macbeth; Hamlet; Richard the Third; Romeo and Juliet; the seven deadly sins.
Modern news limits stories to: political scandals; cold case murders; sports results with a few personal comments; the days finance news, unusable for future investments...
Shakespeare is not dead due to Shakespaere is a an idea of irrelevant knowledge to all concerned story listeners.
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