/lit/ - Literature

When I'm looking for someone who understands people Shakespeare is the guy I always go to, the guy definitely understood us all, and was probably the best psychologist ever.

I would like to know what he wrote about women. He portrayed Cleopatra as a manipulative bitch who couldn't stop lying, and I would like to know more about what Shakespeare wrote or think about women.

I just finished King Lear and have never been so disappointed in my life.

Why there are still literary critics who try compare him with Dante or Cervantes?. Shakespeare is not even half of what Cervantes is and he is not even a quarter of what Dante is; the attempt to compare Shakespeare with these two is definitely a sign of ignorance, as if perhaps they had some relationship of equality. Comparing them is unfair, unreal and grotesque.

Shakespeare is a sonnetist that the English and Americans raised to the level of a poet; without these two he would be nothing; the guy is not good, but he served a political agenda that was imperialist at the time, and that has left the marks of Shakespeare's popularity as one of the greatest poets when he is not.

Shakespeare is practically the Nietzsche of literature; it has no theology, it has no metaphysics, it has no religion, it has no ideology, it has no political theory, it has no ethics or any morals; and like Nietzsche his followers want to compare him to the brilliant minds of Plato and Aristotle, when Shakespeare is a boring mockery that Cervantes turned into a retarded horseback and Dante burned him in the last circle of hell.

Can any fan of Shakespeare explain to me what is so special about him?.

"Damn, it's the cringiest thing ever"
- Shakespeare on Hamlet