Why isn't Shakespeare considered a fantasy writer?
I mean... Oberon, Titania and the other fairies in Midsummer, Hamlet's ghost dad, the three witches in Macbeth, the sorcerers/sprites/spirits in The Tempest... etc.
>>8292841
idk
>>8292841
>some fantastical elements = fantasy writer
Come on now
Fantasy is largely a post Tolkein phenomenon dominated by world building and things of that kind. People just don't put things taken from myth and fairy tale in the same basket.
>>8292841
By that logic then Homer, Dante, Kafka and all romantic and magic realism writers are automatically genre fiction kek