/lit/ - Literature

I still have a crush on Olivia Hussey.

She was the perfect Juliet

>>15851151
also post /lit/ art

>>15851151
>no calpurnia

my favourite play was macbeth.

>>15851157
She was angelic, everyone and everything in that film was gorgeous. I got a bit of a crush on Tybalt

I wish people could make beautiful and authentic historical films again...

>>15851151
anyone from Julius Caesar, love that play so much

Henry VI plays in my oxford shakespeare book went

2 > 3 > 1
Which makes sense given their explanation of it but it still felt like I should've read 1 first

Which play is the best to start with if you've never read Shakespeare before?

>>15851336
Macbeth or Julius Caesar

>>15851151
I'm reading Macbeth at the moment. Will we ever see the ornate style of writing gain popularity?
I have no problem with the simple style of today but I really wish the faculties of the English language were taken to their absolute extreme.

>>15851151
Coriolanus is pure KEK

Edmund (King Lear) and Iago (Othello) are two of the greatest antagonists in the history of fiction.

>>15852121
Hopefully. The best way for ornate literature to become popular again is if people write in ornate styles. It won’t become popular if nobody is writing it.
Write a sonnet every week.

>>15852241
>Iago (Othello)

really? I've heard he's pretty one dimensional and only does bad things because

>>15852345
I can understand why some might say he's one- dimensional, but he definitely has a reason for doing bad things; which is jealousy. Ironically, he lectures (with subtle mocking) Othello one the evils of jealously (Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on).

>>15852425
welp, guess I'm putting Othello on my to read list then. Thanks anon

>>15851336
Probably Macbeth, it's his shortest one and arguably the best along with Hamlet and King Lear.

>>15851151
Juliet is a qt in the movie

Falstaff is my favorite character, a pure life force and funny as hell. His unashamed vices are a great foil against hypocrisy and pomposity. His lowlife antics school Prince Hal in the ways of the world and even though he must reject him to become a great king, it is Falstaff who is his true father.

>>15854087
Orson Welles made me appreciate Falstaff.

>>15851151
Why anons don't read Shakespeare? Unironically. I'm an ESL and it has accessible versions, the plays I read were great and they are usually short. Yet most anons don't have a favorite character. Why?

My favorite Shakespeare character is probably Mercutio, because he’s hilarious and right, or Banquo, because he’s also right. I like the side characters who are like “yo don’t be a fucking idiot it’s clearly a bad idea” and then get murdered, I guess.

>>15851151
The acting troupe in A Midsummer Night's Dream

>>15851336
If you are willing to make the commitment, you should read all of his plays in the order they were written.

>>15854301
/lit/ is basically /pol 2/ at this point

>>15851151
>Powerful female characters
I hate this phrase so fucking much

>>15851157
>Olivia Hussey
good tits

>>15854087
I have a soft spot for Hal himself. I imagine him as Hamlet if Hamlet wasn't a beta.

i havent read much shakespeare but for me it's the queen mab speech by mercutio

>>15857244
Yes, that is what it is weird too. A lot of plays have political themes.

>>15855975
This is what I'm doing now, except I'm reading the Histories in chronological order, which I advise everyone to do.

>>15857244
It's too bad. It used to be fun coming on here to shoot the shit about literature and philosophy with like minded anons, but now it seems like a good half the threads are autistic shrieking about jews minorities.

>>15854087
>>15854209
Based.

>>15851336
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet in that order. Watch them first then read them

>>15851151
Reminder that the National Theatre, Globe Theatre, and Stratford Shakespeare Festival all have past performances for free on youtube while the pandemic is ongoing. They change every couple weeks so keep an eye out.

>>15851151
>favourite characters?
Horatio is based. only person in Denmark who wasn't an asshat.

>favorite names
I would name my first born son Prospero if it wasn't because people would bully him

>>15854301
Probably because it's ruined for most people in the anglosphere since we learn to associate Shakespeare with boring English lessons in school

>>15854350
Hell yeah! Best part of Midsummer Night’s Dream.

>>15857475
>tits
Watched the movie in my high school freshman english class. Only thing I remember about it

>>15851151
For me, it's the Fool, the best Shakespeare character. I like his other jesters too, like Feste, Touchstone, Puck. As for names, I've always liked Viola, and Nick Bottom.

>>15851151
Iago, Falstaf, and Timon are the best characters

>>15851151
Not an original character but one of my favorites is Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida, his monolgues are amazing.
Also Brutus in Julius Caesar, a proto Hamlet that history sees as a "villain" but in Shakespeare's portrayal becomes a tragic hero.

As for names, I think Rosalind is one of the most beautiful names I've ever heard.

>>15860978
The fools always give me headaches because some of their dialogue is so hard to understand, what with all those puns, innuendoes, word play, etc.

>>15855975
>>15857769
Post links please, I don't know the order of all this shit

Anyone else find Jaques one of Shakespeare's saddest figures?
>>15852345
Iago is an amazing antagonist. The key lies in him and Othello being nearly the same person, you can learn about Iago through Othello.
>>15854087
>>15857516
Hal and Falstaff are the most vivid characters I think I've ever read. All the scenes in the tavern with their degenerate friends are so comfy. and that moment when Hal thinks his father is dead and he sits there crying looking at the crown, knowing this is the last moment of the life he knows, crushing.

>>15861327
bump for this

>>15861327
Check the sticky post, anon. FFS, how do you guys live on this board without libgen?

>>15857769
What do you mean? Chronological order of historical events or of composition?

>>15862699
I don't trust the people who make sticky material

>>15851336
Othello