/lit/ - Literature

>completely normal, had a relatively normal and boring life, most traumatic known event was the death of his infant son, sadly a common ocurrence in those times
>generations of the saddest people on Earth cannot accept this, so they spent their pathetic little lives trying to prove he wasn't a normal guy (apart from his literary genius)
What now, OP?

>To Be...
>... Or Not To Be.

Damn...

>invents nothing
>literally just rips off greek/latin/french works but with a homosexual flair
>makes up gay r*ddit words/phrases like "in a pickle", "zany", "bedazzled"
>wrote gay sonnets
Is this really the final boss of Anglo literature? xD

How did he have the confidence or motivation in himself to write timeless plays even with that hairline?

It's weird how Shakespeare is the GOAT of English /lit/ when he disrespected the fuck out of the English language his whole career with malapropisms, constant flexibility of grammar rules, and just making up new words whenever he felt like it.

Why do people think good Shakespeare is just them yelling the lines very loud? I want to like theatre but I find myself being unable to physically sit and watch it.

>by most accounts, has a relatively boring life (compared to most other writers, both of his time and earlier/later, and from other countries)
>People cannot accept it, so they spend their lives trying to spice it up, saying he was someone else, a collective of people, a woman, a catholic, homossexual, bissexual, transsexual, a noble, university educated, a foreigner, an alchoolic or that he had mistresses
Lmao, Shakespeare speculators are the saddest people to have ever existed.

Does anyone actually understand this shit? He talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded. "Forsooth", "methinks", "effulgence". I seriously doubt the majority of Americans understand maybe 30% of it and are just going along with it so they're not called out as illiterate.

How the fuck did he have the motivation to write timeless plays with that hairline?

how did he have the confidence or motivation in himself to write timeless plays even with that hairline?

He is me. I am he.

Genius or a fraud?

>>22430569
LOLUMAD?

Did he write the fucking plays or not, /lit/? Answer me.

>C-section
>Not "born of a woman"
Who writes this shit?

If he's the GOAT, who is second and third place?

Why do Stratfordians immediately start screeching "reactionary!" and "classist!" every time someone brings up the Shakespeare authorship question? Can't be healthy to be so butthurt all the time, can it?

AMND > Tempest > Hamlet > Merchant of Venice > Macbeth > Julius Caesar > King Lear > Romeo and Juliet > Antony and Cleopatra > Othello > The Taming of the Shrew > Much Ado About Nothing > Twelfth Night

That's all I read. I'll get to the histories one of these days.

>he was not for an age, but for all time
how is this not a retarded quote? 90% of the appeal of his plays back then was all the jokes and slang that nobody gets anymore.

He has never been surpassed

How did this nigga get away with telling so many ghost stories?

You ain't lit if you don't read Shakespeare.

I want to see more Shakespeare talk around here. Which soliloquies have you committed to memory?