I don’t think I was trying to make any point except that script writing today uses gratuitous vulgarities and profanities because because the writers lack few substantial script writing abilities. That was not an affront to Shakespeare as he most definitely used his acute sense and command of the English language to convey, more often than not, any meaningful dialogue attributed to the subject that the play was written about.
Did Shakespeare in fact use profanity and vulgarity and cryptic profanity, or as you call them allusions, but which I call cryptic profanity because allusions are much more broad-based than cryptic profanity. Of course Shakespeare did. But his employment of those writing devices we’re not as glaringly gratuitous as produced by writers today.
I also think that theater and Cinema suffer at the hands of writers who have lost the real art of writing. Profanity and vulgarity does not a script make. Yet Hollywood seems to think differently then I do.
My apologies if I pissed you off by the lack of clarity of my thought but it is my thought on the subject.
Don't you EVER read what I post, but only write ridiculous CRAP, trying to refute me and losing, in the attempt to "prove" that you are correct and I'm not?
Frankly, I don't know WHY I even bothered replying to you, with examples and which plays you can find what I was talking about can be found!
Sure, Shakespeare wrote some fantastic plays ( not all of them are "gems" ! )and whilst I do believe that he wrote them, I also know that he cribbed stuff from other plays/authors, added a massive amount of political propaganda to curry favor with the monarch of the time, and had to be careful of that day's censors, who could prevent plays from ever being seen ...he STILL loaded every single play with vulgarities, profanities, the taking of GOD and Jesus' name in vain, obscene sexual stuff!
THE ONLY THINGS HE OMITTED WAS TODAY'S EXPLICIT SEX SCENES/NUDITY ON STAGE AND CAR CRASHES THAT ARE IN THE MOVIES!
OTOH...there's suicides, murders, torture, and lots of blood!
Today's supposed writers have lousy vocabularies, NO imagination at all, and less story telling skills than the average 6 year old had in 1950!