Pip Rasmussen

You know, his depictions went beyond just simple adoration and, you know, engaging with jealousy and lust and betrayal, as we've seen with Othello and Antony and Cleopatra, which made, I guess, humans more relatable, right?

Like this idea of...

When you think about families sometimes and how messy families are and like, you know, this person slept with this person and, you know, I'm going to kill myself over it and this and that, like Shakespeare really brought that complexity and the dynamic interpersonal relationship dynamics that happen.

To the forefront of society.

Shakespeare introduced and popularized over 1,700 words and phrases into the English language.

That is unbelievable.

And so many of the phrases that we still talk about today, right?

So things like love is blind and star-crossed lovers.

Like these are terms that he created.

Yeah.

And it's so fascinating that these are just things like we still refer to today.

Like, duh.

Oh, my God, of course.

Have you been close?

I'm like the one that we love the most.

So, yeah, it was a really fascinating part of, I guess, a Western culture where things really started to shift.

But it wasn't until – now, this is the really big shift.

Shakespeare walked.

Shakespeare walked.

So romantic era could run.