I think that he had to entertain everyone from the cheapest ticket “general admission” groundlings to the fancy nobility in the more expensive sections of the theatre. Definitely, people wouldn’t have had the sort of “academic” view of him that people tend to have today, but I think it would have been obvious that he was a good writer compared to many others of the time.
Old people in this strip never really age, at least not much. At the same time, the children have grown up, but they too stop aging at a certain point.
It’s evident that the same person is doing the weekday colorization for both of these sites. It’s been that way for some time now, although they used to be different. In any case, it’s evident that whoever does it doesn’t have access to any inside knowledge about the characters and apparently doesn’t remember how Kandikane looked the last time she appeared or had never seen her before at all.
Wow, that would be something amazing to see!