/lit/ - Literature

>>511345
>>Ham on Rye
>>Classic

>>510785
You mean that hilarious romping comedy, the history turned satire staring one of the most lively characters in the history of the English language, Falstaff?

Yes I've read it. And it's in every way superior to the patriotic tripe that Henry V represents.

>>Henry V in God Tier
>>Not Henry IV

Demons is a better way to start with Dostoevsky. Or The Brothers Karamazov or the Idiot.

Those ones make crime and punishment look like a pulp fiction novel.

humanity means that people are involved with the social contract. Human beings. It's kind of literal.

>>509486
>>509473

It's good to know some people know a thing or two about the greatest author who ever wrote in English.

everyone else needs to lrn2biography.

/lit/: where any legitimate discussion about literature takes less then 10 posts to turn into a sally about James Joyce and his wife's farts.

>>509281
Also.
Anyone who thinks that borrowing plot outlines from other authors / mythological tales / history / etc. diminishes Shakespeare's eminence is artless at best.

Falstaff would think OP is funny.

>>501714
everything else is an imitation.

None of them, apparently. Vonnegut girl as a last resort.

Couldn't guess Bloom.

<3

Reading Ulysses give you big 'look what I fucking read' points.

Faust is another good one for that, since no one ever reads it.

As You Like It, Othello, MacBeth, Antony and Cleopatra.

you'd better believe.

>>492227
you morons, it's Bernard Sumner.

That bio wasn't great, OP. it was just Deborah cashing on on his fame.

The brain of a woman: for some reason, in her chin.

Every book ever.

The Scarlet Letter: Not horrible.

"There is a sort of ecstasy that exists in the apprehension of the great comic characters of literature."

>>488799