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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Almost all Charles Dickens works were originally published as short magazine-like installments, devoured as serial soap operas by working class readers. It was one of the first instances of literature being marketed as product. Even today some literati view it as little more than that.
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And one can say exactly the same of Shakespeare of course. He was writing the "mass entertainment" of his day. Plays for the mob; certainly not "high art".