/lit/ - Literature

>>20425208
>>20427009
this is the renaissance era version of having 8 tabs open at once

>>20272144
To persevere or cease existence, that is the quandary.

What are Shakespeare’s best plays? Also additional question what playwrights are on par or even potentially better than him?

>>19920527
1. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (if have to pick one play, hamlet)
2. Moby Dick
3. The Grapes of Wrath

>>19836844
audiobooks are good if you work a mundane job where you can pop in earbuds. I did landscaping every summer in college and listened to tons of books while riding around on a lawnmower, it was pretty cozy. that being said I prefer reading a physical book.

Stop letting whores live rent free in your head. Coom inside whores then promptly dispose of them. That's all the attention a human female should receive from you. Don't think about them, don't talk about them, don't simp for them. Coom and go.

>>18672835
Ahhhhh yes of course! I should've consulted 20th ce westerners upon the meaning of Eastern texts!@@!
My eyes are wide open. Wow, semantics! the reader over the author. Wow. What a crazy western perspective!@

>>18508753
this board is so shit im honestly gonna stop browsing and go read a book.

>character in book said x
>therefore author believes x
is this true?

Who did it best?

Book 1, passage from Apollo and Daphne

>Golding
There from hys quiver full of shafts two arrowes did he take
Of sundrie workes: t'one causeth Love, the tother doth it slake.
That causeth love, is all of golde with point full sharpe and bright,
That chaseth love is blunt, whose stele with leaden head is dight.
The God this fired in the Nymph Peneis for the nones:
The tother perst Apollos heart and overraft his bones.

>Mandelbaum
There, from his quiver, Cupid drew two shafts
of opposite effect: the first rejects,
the second kindles love. This last is golden,
its tip is sharp and glittering; the first
is blunt, its tip is leaden, and with this
blunt shaft the god pierced Daphne. With the tip
of gold he hit Apollo; and the arrow
pierced to the bones and marrow.

>Melville
And from his quiver's laden armoury
He drew two arrows of opposing power,
One shaft that rouses love and one that routs it.
The first gleams bright with piercing point of gold;
the other, dull and blunt, is tipped with lead.
This one he lodged in Daphne's heart; the first
he shot to pierce Apollo to the marrow.

>Humphries
Drew from his quiver different kinds of arrows,
One causing love, golden and sharp and gleaming,
The other blunt, and tipped with lead, and serving
To drive all love away, and this blunt arrow
He used on Daphne, but he fired the other,
The sharp and golden shaft, piercing Apollo
Through bones, through marrow

>Martin
and from his quiver drew two arrows out
which operated at cross-purposes,
for one engendered flight, the other, love;
the latter has a polished tip of gold,
the former has a tip of dull, blunt lead;
with this one, Cupid struck Peneus’ daughter,
while the other pierced Apollo to his marrow.

>>17402183
>shitspanic lit
hard no

>>17389269
de rien

was Shakespeare a hack for never producing anything original? all he did was steal plots and translate them.