The more things change, a Seventeenth century redpill

Whence there was Antony and Cleopatra, now there is Idubbbz and Anisa

From a Jstor article

I don't know if it's just modern day internet brainrot, but I always get a good chuckle from seeing stuff like this cuz my mind goes immediately to Andrew Tate and Sneako-like characters. To imagine them back then with all the romanticized dignity associated with the great writers of this period, or centuries from now a person exploring the archives of the internet and treating their rhetoric with the same clinical-academic observance, diagnosing trends of this time then long past. Makes you wonder if this John Taylor was memed on as much in his day as Tate is in ours

Also, this isn't any kind of effortpost don't know if I'm blueballing anyone by that