The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.
I think I was born in Elizabethan times.
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
