/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ I'm not a native english speaker. I need a word that means 'very interesting and\or funny content'. It must be short and juicy. Slang is welcome.

INB4 'The shit'

http://flavorwire.com/394825/what-your-favorite-shakespeare-play-says-about-you

>>2184239

>mfw I take something from someone and improve it tenfold

>also implying Francis Bacon didn't plagiarise off stories passed down via word of mouth

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I have never been taught Shakespeare, although I read many of his plays and downloaded lectures.

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His arguments will never grow old.

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I prefer reading the texts first, then I usually watch a couple of plays.
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My favorite is without a doubt Hamlet, and why people don't agree with me here I don't understand. I didn't really like Macbeth.
Everyone who likes Shakespeare should see Korol Lir. Although if you are easily depressed, this work will just bring you more despair. If Samuel Johnson ever watched this adaptation he'll fucking kill himself out of misery.

Favorite Shakespeare work?

Shakespeare thread

>>1853432
>Consider, OP, that there are no prodigy novelists, like there are prodigy musicians.

I think this fellow here to my right would disagree.

I want to enjoy Shakespeare. Should I start with reading or watching the plays? Or both? In what order?

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>>1698299
Yeah yeah, maybe if you wrote a Hamlet or a Macbeth people would give a fuck about you. I'm the king. Deal with it.

Hey /lit/, aspiring poetfag here. Awhile ago I wrote an internet-styled total remake of Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", I even have the foreign language prologue part except transplanted from a classic foreign internet video. I did it awhile ago for my school's Bad Poetry Contest but decided against it ultimately. Should I share it or would I face a lot of this Rules 1 & 2 nonsensical raging? It does use a lot of the stock and trite /b/ phrases.

Complete Works of Shakespeare (the Royal Shakespeare Company edition) for 60% off at the Borders liquidation sale. Ended up saving something like $60

Which book has affected you the most profoundly?

For me, it's probably George Orwell's 1984. After I read that, I became consumed by literature, reading any and all classics (to start) that I could get my hands on. It marked the point of transformation from a dipshit who cared little for anything to an intellectually stimulated young man.

Otherwise, it would be Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or Romeo and Juliet by good old Shakespeare.

What about you, /lit/?

If you can look into the seeds of time,
and say which grain will grow and which will not,
speak then unto me.

Motherfucking Shakespeare

Did Shakespeare ever use real dead bodies for his plays?
I don't remember where i heard this (could have made it up or dreamt it) but i recall someone telling me that the heads of executed criminals were sometimes used in plays. have you ever heard or read of this? i brought it up in my Shakespeare class today and was told that it would have been far too outrageous for the time period. What say you?

>use the words "intellectual," "hipster," or "liberal arts degree"

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Every. fucking. time.

/lit/ needs to work through it's insecurity issues.