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I wonder if Shakespeare had a dog
#it would make complete sense#lance and crab in two gentlemen of verona. come on#recently i forgot the name of lance and i only remembered that his dog's name was crab#text post#shakespeare#other references to dogs in the play do come off to me as mostly positive#not that you should interpret shakespeare's work autobiographically but i can read in the imagination of it#someone who has had an appreciation for that animal on some personal level before.#if he ever had dogs in his life. that'd be just like me fr#just in general the analysis of animals in his play is very interesting to me#particularly wild versus domestic animals#there are so many hunting metaphors sprinkled throughout the play but perhaps the dog references stick out to me#and that's my own personal bias.#however it's. you know. hardly what i'd call unlikely to imagine that a man who grew up in stratford would've been raised around animals#u can see in his treatment of many subjects that he had a less urban/londonite lens than his contemporaries#for instance a midsummer night's dream would be much less likely i think to be written by a city-dweller#forests in general feature heavily in shakespeare but i am particularly thinking of the fairies. which some countryfolk still believed in#at that time period. again here i go saying u shouldn't read things autobiographically but i do like to analyze and make conjectures#our backgrounds do inform how we see the world and how we see the world informs our creative potential and processes#do you think he had a dog?
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