The Bard - the Entertainer Class through History

From neolithic caves to Elizabethan theatres, from Han Dynasty China to Dark Age Europe there has been an archetype that naturally forms in our societies with seemingly no evolutionary benefit. A trade that began the first time we told an embellished story around a campfire and still exists to this day as a multi-billion dollar industry that continues to influence our consciousness'. Something that differs us from every other living being in our ability to recount, create, satirise and imagine. This is of course the jester, the bard, the entertainer...

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The Bard of Avon is a good place to start of course!

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Yes! He does get a mention towards the end, though there’s a theory that he had help penning plays by his friend Marlowe.

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@@Grey-Wolf-Adventuring there's a video by thoughty2 about the "theories" on who ghost wrote Shakespeare's work. Mostly it's the upper class refusing to accept a working class member of society could understand such things as courtly manners etc. worth a watch!

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@@DrTurt-uq3kc fascinating, will definitely give it a watch!