[stylist] Too much dialog?

[Judith Bron]

We're talking different styles.  Shakespeare wrote only dialogue.  That was 
the way it was done in the late sixteenth early seventeenth century.  My 
husband was a Shakespearean actor in college.  He told me that Shakespeare 
didn't even get rich on his work.  I asked him why.  He answered, "Did you 
ever see the credits at the end of a television show?"  He was referring to 
the days when I had perfect eyesight.  My answer was yes.  He asked, "Do you 
remember the name of every director and others who got credit for the show?" 
Obviously my answer was no.  He concluded that Shakespeare today would be 
the author cited in the credits of a television show.  He would probably be 
one author in the segment.  You wouldn't look at any of these authors as a 
big deal.  You don't remember all the authors.  Shakespeare wrote before the 
novel was an acceptable writing format.  In the modern novel you can bring 
out things like settings and thoughts of characters in ways not acceptable 
in the late sixteenth  early seventeenth century.  Judith