Sula-"All the world's a stage and all the people merely players."-Quote or fact?

Does life imitate art or does art imitate life? The Age of Revolution might answer this question, or possibly Sula. At the end of the 18th century there was the French Revolution. The old order needed to change and there was a revolt against the excesses of the King. He was seeking absolute power so the lower orders turned against the aristocracy with increasing violence. At the same time the American Revolution severed England from its prosperous colony and launched a "Radical Experiment" in The New World. These twin revolutions had far reaching consequences. They changed the political order of these two countries and altered how Western Societies thought about themselves with marked effects on cultural institutions and the arts. Enlightenment philosophers emerged who were advocates for new social organizations. Revolutions grew more violent and as a result the Romanticism movement emerged. They created unusual mixtures and had no boundaries between style and form. The face of drama and theatre was changed forever. (Norton Anthology of Drama 54).
This was the beginning of mixing high and low characters and of comedy and tragedy. This is the concept that Radical Romance is drawn from. All writing and language is the response of something from and since the beginning of time. Time moves us forward yet we must be conscious of how we spend that time and who we spend it with or we may be caught up and lost within our past.