/lit/ - Literature

>>21801897
King Lear is also totally stolen

>>21801897
Yeah and LoTR is just some tales stolen from the Celts
Cry some more

>muh original plots
Go read your Agatha Christies

>>21801897
William Leibowitz-Shakesberg was his real name, his mother Shoshanna Leibowitz being numbered among the proto-feminists, saw no reasom why her son shouldn’t carry around her surname along with his father’s.

>>21801897
>stole an italian story
What did he steal?

"uhhh, why would the italians ever falsify the historical record to derive benefit for supposedly being the originator of shakespeare's shining glory"
cope, you filthy etruscan. shakespere literally invented every story by sheer genius. he didn't steal from anyone, especially not from a fucking hodgepodge of arabic, slavoid, semetic, neanderthal holdovers. all of italy is just a ghetto of lesser people living on the ruins of greatness. you are responsible for NOTHING on your own that wasn't given to you by the undiluted blood that had come before you fucking apes!

>>21801984
What a fuckin’ takedown.

>>21801980
The plots of many of his plays are adaptions of already existing stories. Shakespeare was never hailed as a genius for his plots, so this is not in fact a big deal.

>>21801984
>you are responsible for NOTHING on your own that wasn't given to you by the undiluted blood that had come before you fucking apes!
Maybe look in the mirror.

>>21801897
I beat the fuck outta Billy Boy Shakespeare! hold me back mates!

>>21801897
Shakespeare stole the show you ESL nigger. Keep speaking his language.

>>21801980
The one where the woman sleeps with a guy and hides in the trunk is taken from Boccaccio.

>>21802086
Is this guy some sort of autist going to all the Shakespeare threads and ranting about ESLs? I have seen this type of posting hundreds of time in very similar topics over and over.

>>21802048
The only original plot he came up with (Titus) is so bad that the legitimacy of it is often questioned. It's considered spurious simply because it's not good.

>>21801926
>>21801956

> a book and a corpus of folklore is the same.

>/lit/ thinks the genius of shakespeare lies in his plots
yikes

>>21801980
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3718757

>>21801897
>uhhh should i die or should i not die
he stole that monologue from an 15th ce Italian poet who wrote in Latin

>>21802222
>>21802048
what exactly IS he hailed as a genius for?

>>21802222
where is the genius then? I hope is not something about capturing the human psyche

>>21802235
His poetry and psychological depth.

>>21802309
yes and explain how he exhibits this "psychological debts" when his plots and characters are horribly unrealistic

>>21802208
>t. ESL

>>21802212
This is /lit/. Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare's only good play. We all know it. Go back to >>>/po/

>>21802086
segui llorando nena ;)

>>21802048
That's not stealing

>>21802401
>buttmad and autistic
Sucks to be you I guess.

>>21802311
they are better than realism could ever aspire to be

>>21801926
>Yeah and LoTR is just some tales stolen from the Celts
And the Finns, and the Nordics, and the Welsh, and the