Shakespeare’s plays were written for the masses. They’re filled with dastardly deeds, violence, sex, bawdy jokes, and people getting drunk and making complete fools of themselves. Pit audiences in Shakespeare’s day were known to throw rotten vegetables if they didn’t like the performances. Not exactly your decorous, Broadway theater crowd. Yet, some 400 years after the first publication of one of his plays (Titus Andronicus), his work is considered to be great art.
So, does that mean in 2416 people will consider Fear Factor to be great art?
Things I think about when I’m watching Jeopardy