>Shakespeare >Samuel Beckett >Gilbert and Sullivan

>lists three English people and an Irish person
I don't get it

>>1705590
I'm saying the British Isles have historically been a factory of great theatre, even compared to Greece, where the whole thing got started.

That's your Anglo-centric perspective factoring in though, as I can guarantee that albeit for Shakespeare (though only for having becoming the inescapable flag-bearer for theater), germans are very unlikely to be knowledgable about Beckett, or Gilbert and so on... They would tell you that Goethe is the world's second greatest playwright, as the french would with Racine.

That said,
>Beckett as your proof for England being the home of fantastic theatre writing
>litterally the guy that wrote his masterpiece in french, then translated it into English
:/

>>1705644
I'm not sure if you realise but England is only one part of those islands in the OP pic.

>>1705601
>anglo centered media popularises anglos

Who could have geussed

>>1705644
I didn't say England, I said the British Isles. This isn't about ethnicity, but more of a geography thing.

Also Gilbert and Sullivan started a worldwide craze in their time, one of their works was the first international copyright, and also the fact that they were the ones to really get amateur theatre going around the world (something that would start vaudeville in America which would build its way both into the modern musical as well as Jazz and Hollywood)

>>1705583
>Gilbert and Sullivan
They were considered lowbrow pleb tier during their time.

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>>1705671
>low brow
Not quite, they were considered to be "light entertainment" but they were never raunchy or low brow, and that was deliberate on the part of Gilbert and D'Oyly Carte who specifically wanted to make family friendly theater for the middle class London audiences.