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Is Shakespeare the greatest writer of the english language?

>> No.22791785
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22791785

No

>> No.22791790

>>22791777
Probably, but I prefer others. Chaucer is one.

>> No.22791797

>>22791777
Check’d. And yes, he is.

>> No.22791893

never read him

>> No.22791908

>>22791777
Checked. Yes.

>> No.22791910

>>22791777
Who?

>> No.22791915

>>22791910
The play-writing pseudonym of Francis Bacon, renowned scholar and polymath.

>> No.22791931

>>22791910
*De Vere
Sorry, made a mistake. Only a retard could possibly subscribe to Baconian authorship

>> No.22791941
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>>22791777
So they say.
This is the only 100% confirmed likeness btw. However, it is also true that the Chandos portrait is the most likely surviving portrait. Notice how the eye colour in both is brown-ish: do not trust any blue-eyed representations.

>> No.22791996

John Milton and Charles Dickens are on the same tier. Shakespeare is closer to Dostoesvky, Milton and Dickens and Wordsworth and Blake are the literary equivalent of Bach Beethoven Mozart

>> No.22792022

>>22791996
Melville is up there with Shakespear

>> No.22792029
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>>22791915
>>22791931

>> No.22792037

>>22791941
he thicc

>> No.22792042

>>22791777
Absolutely. Blessed trips btw

>> No.22792050

>>22791941
>This is the only 100% confirmed likeness btw
except it's not a confirmed likeness

>> No.22792124

No, Colleen Hoover

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>>22791931
I hate Stratfordians so much it's unreal.

>> No.22792300

>>22792022
Melville is midwits Milton to be honest

>> No.22792325

>>22791777
No

>> No.22792874

>>22792022
no.

>>22791996
1. shake
2. milton
3. dickens
4. the rest

melville is great, but I think Nabokov or even Hawthorne, his contemporary, equals or outdoes him.

>> No.22792879

>>22791785
I respect Carlyle, but no.

>> No.22793067

>>22792029
I'm reading a book about the Shakespeare authorship question that was released this year. The author is an Anti-Stratfordian who thinks the real writer was a woman.

>> No.22793130

Obviously

>> No.22793157

>>22791777
no doubt

>> No.22793198

>>22791777
Yes.
>>22791785
Maybe greatest prose writer, but Carlyle would 100% give the award for greatest writer in general to Shakespeare.

>> No.22793207

>>22791941
>This is the only 100% confirmed likeness btw.
No it's not, it was modelled on the Chandos portrait a long time later. The original sculpture was utter garbage so later generations said Shakespeare deserved better and remodelled it.

Ignoring this just makes you sound insecure.

>> No.22793219

>>22791777
Yes.

>> No.22793425

>>22793207
>”care was taken, as nearly as could be, not to add to or diminish what the work consisted of, and appear'd to have been when first erected: And really, except changing the substance of the Architraves from alabaster to Marble; nothing has been chang'd, nothing alter'd, except supplying with original material, (sav'd for that purpose,) whatsoever was by accident broken off; reviving the Old Colouring, and renewing the Gilding that was lost.”

>> No.22793486

>>22792029
Me sides. Fucking have a (You) you cunt. Hilarious.