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Comparing 1800s playwrights to 1500s playwrights is unfair!
Besides, Imre Madách had a few hundred years of literary refinement to write something better.
Shakespeare suffers from predictableness as you know what's going to happen as soon as the play starts. If you look at a lot of plays way back in the day. They were highly antiquated styles of writing and most of the time nothing happens in them. Like barber of Seville.
> I really should revisit them.
Fortunately, one of them are free on youtube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9eUbpdlwoJY