Drama and Tragedy for Princes and Kings only?

The knowledge of the equality of all people which can be acquired through meditation is no general experience.

Thus, in the past in literature and rhetoric the tragedy and pathos had been reserved for the princes and kings. The people lived in feudal division which found their expression in the arts. The bourgeois revolution took the privilege of the kings of tragedy and settled tragedy on earth among the citizens. The German poet Lessing marked with his bourgeois tragedy 'Miss Sarah Sampson' a turning point in that development....

We all learn and slowly more and more what equality means. The bourgeois revolution in Germany (1848) brought rights and freedoms only to better earning citizens.... The right to vote was not for all ... Some time elapsed until all the men got it in Germany (1871) and later on the women too (1919 -1939, 1949 -....).

But we are far from being at the end of the journey. True equality still will have to overcome many common viewpoints before we perceive each human being just as human as you and me ....