Why isn't Shakespeare considered a fantasy writer? I mean...

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2016-07-18 09:22:06 Post No. 8292841
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Anonymous 2016-07-18 09:22:06 Post No. 8292841 [Report]

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.

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Anonymous 2016-07-18 09:26:22 Post No.8292848
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>>8292841
idk

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Anonymous 2016-07-18 09:26:31 Post No.8292849
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Anonymous 2016-07-18 09:26:31 Post No.8292849 [Report]

>>8292841
>some fantastical elements = fantasy writer

Come on now

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Anonymous 2016-07-18 10:07:16 Post No.8292919
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Anonymous 2016-07-18 10:07:16 Post No.8292919 [Report]

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.

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Anonymous 2016-07-18 10:10:24 Post No.8292926
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Anonymous 2016-07-18 10:10:24 Post No.8292926 [Report]

>>8292841
By that logic then Homer, Dante, Kafka and all romantic and magic realism writers are automatically genre fiction kek