His humor, often crude and over sexualized, was aimed at two social groups: the elite and the squatters. His catering toward two very dissimilar audience’s required a writing style deep enough to give the erudite something to talk about at their stupendous extravaganzas, while being simple enough for the peasants and vagabonds of the crowd to grasp without a second thought. Shakespeare is the classic example of “smart comedy.” There are a plethora of sources to pull from, but I will limit myself to two . In Hamlet
His humor, often crude and over sexualized, was aimed at two social groups: the elite and the squatters. His catering toward two very dissimilar audience’s required a writing style deep enough to give the erudite something to talk about at their stupendous extravaganzas, while being simple enough for the peasants and vagabonds of the crowd to grasp without a second thought. Shakespeare is the classic example of “smart comedy.” There are a plethora of sources to pull from, but I will limit myself to two . In Hamlet