>There were good subjects also. Foreign visitors were
>surprised to find how commonly non-elite people read
>Shakespeare.
Likewise, today, foreign visitors would be surprised to find how commonly North American non-elite people can play computer games.
Depends on what the limitations on media use are. In the height of socialist agitation, theatre was powerful because there were no mass communications; and being more "literate," there was a more literate public.
I wonder if any medium is really superior to another... they can certainly give a gloss to being superior in a temporal snap shot... depending on the place yer taking the snapshot from, I suppose...
Ken.
-- The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
-- William Shakespeare, 1597
King Henry VI, Part II (Act IV)