/lit/ - Literature

>le kill every character man

It's true Shakespeare gives me 50 cents every time I shill his work.

>Falstaff: I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.
>Prince Henry: Why, thou owest God a death. [Exit.]
>Falstaff: 'Tis not due yet: I would be loth to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if Honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can Honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is Honour? a word. What is that word, Honour? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it sensible then? Yes, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.

Who was in the right here?

Where would a non-Anglo non-native speaker start with Shakespeare?

>oh,

*ends this entire thread*

What're the best movie adaptations of all of Shakespeare's (adapted) work?

>just read them
It's not for me.

Why is he so fucking fun to read?
I never gave shit about plays, they always interpret shit in wrong way and make it look their dumb ass way.
Like seriously, english is not even my native language, and I read the original version and it was a fucking blast for me.

What is his second best tragedy and why is it King Lear?

As a non-white person whose first language is English, I have a hard time liking his plays, especially Hamlet, and prefer reading more universal books like the Bible.

Qui est le Shakespeare français?

Reminder that the greatest writers were all (without fail) poets who transitioned into prose and that to write good prose you must study poetry

should I read all his shit or watch the best adapatations?

What is /lit/'s favorite work by Shakespeare?

Is he overrated?

Many people will claim otherwise, but they are only using his work to spread their own ideological biases. The truth is that he is the most unspooked writer in the history of the world.

Name a more dramatic sentence than this.

Protip: you can't.

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>not plundering old medieval manuscripts and classical texts for your stories so that you can focus on the actual writing
Pleb.

Redpill me on Shakesphere.

Did he *really* write everything he claims he wrote?

I read somewhere in the 18th century he was just seen as being among the great

than his status blew up to being "the greatest english writer ever" in the Victorian era (early 19th century)