Are fantastic, made-up tales an accurate depiction of the societies in which they are set?

[james_davis_nicoll]

No.


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[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

R&J are Europeans--the play is set in Verona, in, I believe, contemporary times. That said, yeah, the idea of an "authentic" representation of the setting would not have developed yet.