/lit/ - Literature

Essential/interesting works of shakespeare criticism?

What's up /lit/erati

ITT: We turn Shakespeare plays into porn titles. Or anything else that you would be funny. Because you're all so boring.

I'll start:

>Much Ado About Fucking
> A Sodomy of Errors
>Titus Androgynous

ITT: Your favourite Shakespeare quotes. I'll start.

What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?

>>4570761
i'm so nervous hehe

In high school I was in regular English for my freshman and sophomore year, then got bumped up to honors and AP English for junior and senior year. The thing is, on regular track, people read Shakespeare their Junior year, and on the honors track, he is read the sophomore year. So I missed the "big sections" of Shakespeare

I read Othello and Romeo and Juliet and that's about it. Where should I go from here? What is the best way to get more familiar with his works as I know now as it stands I miss references to his stuff all the time. Is there any book/set in particular I should consider picking up?

So, yeah, Shakespears way over rated
>tfw shitty wording
>tfw use of constant slang
>tfw in play format

How does anyone read through this garbage? Really can't stand for the fact that students are asked to read in shitty play style format on their own. The fact that in a college course I still have to read the Tempest and King Henry is ludicrous. There are much better books that convey the same messages and I don't give a damn about local British politics.

Seriously, why do people slober over this guy, and why is his work so loved. Like come on, people love Romeo and Juliet, but for all the wrong reasons. His work is shit and it doesn't even get through to high school students, and now that I'm in college and while I understand his works, they are still so shitty, especially for comprehension.

The narration is like when I would gather my action figures and have a war with them.

ITT: We read Shakespeare on Vocaroo...

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Tjuu0cxeMM

The Merchant of Venice

Across the works of Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Macbeth, what are three of the most similar characters? (One from each play)

What's the best complete Shakespeare?

I understand that what sells today is young-adult literature. But what is that exactly? The only big novels I can remember recently are the Harry Potter books, Hunger Games books, and Twilight books. Are there any other hugely popular books I am missing, and what is coming next?

ITT favorite words / interesting words you have come across

I just recently ran into the word 'defenestration', which apparently is (according to webster) is "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window", but especially when used for a person.

I think it is funny that it is so specific - that it is specifically the act of throwing a person out of a window

I know this has probably been asked a billion times before, but I just saw the Throne of Blood, and having read Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet in highschool, I want to read me some Shakespeare and want the definitive collection for somebody who is not attending any college courses on him.

In my searches online, I find people saying that some collections are better than others for different purposes, but they usually stop there and don't say what those intended purposes are. The most I've gathered is that the Arden Shakespeare is very advanced, and probably not something I would want, seeing as how I'll just be reading it at home.

I want the collection that is most complete (I'm fairly certain all of them have his entire body of work, so that's probably not an issue), with annotations that will help me understand what is being said, but also I really like historical information and facts about the plays and whatnot, be it their history or the history of what's going on, etc

What's the best collection for an at home reader

So our teacher during this semester had us read Shakespeare and some Mark Twain books, now each session were given a one page assignment on the previous topics. This time we were asked to write about how Mark Twain may have been influenced by Shakespeare. Im so bored of writing 3 of these a week, so I wrote this to turn in:

Title: A historical retorspective of Mark Twain and Shakespeare.

What are the five most essential works of Shakepeare?

Doesn't the prominence of racism and sexism among the greatest authors imply that those who wish to be great authors should be racist and sexist?

Favorite Shakespeare Jokes. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND go. .

I never read a play by Shakespeare. Where to start?

Is Shakespeare gay?

Because I'm not even halfway done through these sonnets and they're already the gayest, most romantic, most saucy things I have ever read.

>>3841999
>mfw I got that same exact Shakespeare book a couple of months ago
Fuck you OP it's glorious

>>3760329
Screenwriting is not /lit/

William Shakspere could not, unaided, have produced the immortal writings bearing his name.

He did not possess the necessary literary culture, for the town of Stratford where he was reared contained no school capable of imparting the higher forms of learning reflected in the writings ascribed to him. His parents were illiterate, and in his early life he evinced a total disregard for study. There are in existence but six known examples of Shakspere's handwriting. All are signatures, and three of them are in his will. The scrawling, uncertain method of their execution stamps Shakspere as unfamiliar with the use of a pen, and it is obvious either that he copied a signature prepared for him or that his hand was guided while he wrote. No autograph manuscripts of the "Shakespearian" plays or sonnets have been discovered, nor is there even a tradition concerning them other than the fantastic and impossible statement appearing in the foreword of the Great Folio.

Shakspere's daughters were illiterate. His daughter Judith, at the age of 27, could not even sign her name.

If this guy wrote the plays bearing his name how would he have permitted his own daughter to reach womanhood and marry without being able to read one line of the writings that made her father wealthy and locally famous? It makes no sense.

Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?

Why is William Shakespeare considered one of the best English writers when the stuff he wrote wasn't even in proper English?

Ok, hoping this is the right place. More importantly, hoping I can get a decent answer. Just finished reading Macbeth and I would like to see the play. I live in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere, so going to have to download it.

Any idea which is the best version to download and where I'd get it? I don't usually download things. naturally, looking for the one with the best acting, but also would like decent sound and video quality.

whats your favorite playwright /lit/

contemporary or not