Comprehensives struggle to compete with the hothouse conditions of independent and grammar schools, some of which have links to Oxbridge dating back centuries.
Such violence in our time thrives on a form of mental blindness. Like a hothouse plant, it flourishes under the heady steam of its own unstoppable conviction.
It's also really important to understand what other artists were doing during Shakespeare's writing because they all influenced one another the 1500s which was a hothouse for creative minds.