/lit/ - Literature

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>no discernable lit bf

>>8584125
why would you post on a literature board if you've never read anything by Shakespeare

Shakespeare didn't read the classics. He watched his contemporary playwrights and read the same pop-tier poets as all other English people of his time. He has also known some bible passages from the psalms they sung at that time in the church and had evidently consulted the book of prayer for burial and marriage. The claim that he was reading Ovid, Pliny or Aesop relies on ideas and similies that were so common he might have picked up pretty much anywhere. For his history plays he relied on Holinshed who was used in his school. And every time he drops a Latin phrase it's also picked up from his school books.
So, why don't you do it like Shakespeare? Why not just write instead of starting with the Greeks?