Shakespeare's Taboos.

The renowned writer wrote about basically everything around his environment and society during his time, from gossip to politics. This may have attracted a following to his plays, but what I find interesting about his plays is the thoughts of taboos, or ideas that people try to avoid because of religious, traditional, or moral reasons. For example, we see the idea of incest being put into the plot in Hamlet, which some might find pretty gross. Others include racism in Othello, homosexuality in A Midnight Summer's Dream, and anti-Semetism in Merchant of Venice. Not only did he bring these topics into theaters of his time, which may have found his ideas to be wrong, he created a legacy of literature that was passed on into our century, where these taboos are somewhat still put into society.