By Cal
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I don’t think I’d want to live in Shakespeare’s time. It
probably wasn’t as hard for the people as it seems to us now, but if I’d lived
in Shakespeare’s time, my family wouldn’t have adopted me, I couldn’t marry my
boyfriend (except maybe if one of us was as adept at cross-dressing as Viola
and Rosalind), my brother Angel would probably have died when he was a baby and
my sister Megan would be disabled and couldn’t have learned to dance. We really
are very lucky in modern times, though of course not everyone has been as lucky
as us. I really hope that, in the future, a lot more people will be lucky. It’s
true that in 2020, we are fighting against disease, prejudice and very
questionable political decisions, but all that happened in Shakespeare’s time
too. We know that from his plays.
