/lit/ - Literature

>wrote about 40 plays in under 30 years, most of them masterpieces
>collaborated on many others
>also poetry
>extremely well read
>and was an actor
>would have rehearsed in the morning, performed in the day, and wrote late into the night by candlelight
>also involved in the business and running of his company
>and also had his side businesses
>ALL WITHOUT CAFFEINE

SERIOUSLY, how did this bulbous headed motherfucker do it?

How do the basic metres of other languages compare with Iambic Pentameter? I'm interested in Dante's "simple terza rima".

>>16366983
Is the Haiku superior to Iambic Pentameter?

Will vers libre ever be able to equal the noble iambic pentameter?

Will vers libre ever be able to equal the noble iambic pentameter?

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Did Shakespeare read Plato? It sounds like the Cratylus. Not only that but I found this passage after Plato remarked how the pronunciation of ἔρως changed over time. It sounds a bit like "a rose" and I wanted to know if Shakespeare used this as a play on words to ground the symbolism and this passage
>That which we call a rose (eros) By any other name would smell as sweet
sounds like he did, but googling "eros Shakespeare" didn't give any results and neither does the wiki page on this passage remark anything.

>>16306126
So who is better Shakespeare or Sophocles(and/or Aeschylus)?

>>16061899
I'll take this anytime.

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>>15894543
>tfw your art ends up getting misinterpreted anyway

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>>15783763
>In Symposium, Socrates remarks that a truly great playwright can write both tragedies and comedies. Did any Greek actually succeed in doing this?
Yes, oh I wonder who it could be.

Where do I start? Where do I go?

Sometimes being born a native English speaker feels like drawing a shitty hand because of the vast amounts of world literature that I'll have to read in translation.

This guy though. He makes it all worthwhile. I can't imagine having to read Shakespeare's works in translation, his writings alone make English the most /lit/ language out there. Can we have a thread devoted to him?

What's your favourite Shakespeare play? Poem? Any non-native /lit/izens read him in both your native language and English? How different is the experience?

Serious question. Has any writer rivaled Shakespeare for mastery of the English language?

Certainly they are more erudite authors, but none so far as I can tell, who have wielded such a command of the language as he.