great language, plot device stinks

Whether it is wossname's being "untimely ripp'd", or the woods moving against the castle, the plot devices are pretty peurile. But then, Shakespeare was never very good at that sort of thing, was he? Think about the notion that a sister could be disguised as a man and look exactly like her brother (Twelfth Night), or a handmaiden could compromise her mistress at night without her mistress realising it (Much ado...), or that two young lovers kill themselves because they are too stupid to check properly for signs of life (Romeo and Juliet). Shakespearian plays were, I think, made for the willing suspension of disbelief...

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the sunshine warrior