Through the comprehensiveness of the Gilneas Compendium, I only recently realized something that has persistently nagged me about Azeroth: How do people entertain themselves? Where are the fine arts? These are the things that make a culture live. As we see visual arts all over the place, there are three other areas that I am particularly interested in exploring in this thread: literature, theatre, and music.

Literature: Where is their literature? There are books all over Azeroth, and I find it hard to believe that these books are just nothing more than copies of the History of Warcraft, books of arcana and spiritual piety, and other works of non-fiction. There is even a no-longer in-game item called Book of Romantic Poems that comes from assembled pieces in Undercity.
Questions: Where and who are the authors of Azeroth? What fictional works of literature have the people of Azeroth composed? What stories do they enjoy reading? Who are the poets?

Theatre: Plays are not a new thing in real life history. Dramatic and comedic plays were common in the theatre. There were even numerous street performers and various shows. Plays even persisted in the medieval period in the form of morality plays, only to explode into a vibrant rebirth of theatre in the Renaissance.
Questions: Where are the theatres? What are the great plays? Where and who are the Shakespeares of Azeroth? Who are the great playwrights of Azeroth? What plays do the various races enjoy?
Recommendation: I would love to see Blizzard implement theaters or amphitheaters in various capitals. People could go there at certain times of the day and see plays. Or better yet, you go to an empty theater - so as to be used for roleplaying - but there would be a single NPC there. When you click on the NPC, they would give you a choice of plays to see. Then you it would put you in a machinima cutscene in which you are in the stands watching a short play that enacted some piece of lore, either a dramatic reenactment of a historical event or some fictive story.

Music: We only get a few glimpses of music referenced through the game. For example, there is the aforementioned Opera House of Karazhan. Drums are fairly common leather-made items. There is the "Carved Harp of Exotic Wood" draenei archaeology junk item. There are three in-game flute items which are used for quests. There are several "music boxes." There is Blizzard's self-insert band, whose lore status for Azerothian music is dubious. There are also a number of horns. We also have a reference to musicians in The Last Guardian:
Questions: Where is the music? Where and who are the Bachs, Beethovens, Mozarts, and Chopins of Azeroth? What music do the people of Azeroth like? Where are other opera houses and performance halls throughout the world? Did Azeothian opera have an unofficial "high language or Common dialect" for opera like Italian was for European opera?

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