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2393016 No.2393016 [Reply] [Original]

He's probably right too

>> No.2393023
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2393023

>The inevitable

>> No.2393024

>>2393020

>Whose Shakespeare*

Sorry, typo.

>> No.2393020

Who's Shakespeare

>> No.2393025

The only reason people like this guy is because he's old. All his plays end with everyone dying anyway. No one today talks like his plays so it's pointless to look at it.

>> No.2393029

>Shakespeare
>pointless
>Spear
>Point
Almost Shakespearean.

>> No.2393036

>>2393016
I'd like taht comment too.

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>>2393025
> No one today talks like his plays so it's pointless to look at it.

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>> No.2393040

>Shakespeare is pointless
>Probably uses words and phrases penned by him everyday
>His plays are used as templates for countless films, plays and novels
>He re-imagined what language could be

>> No.2393044

>>2393025
let's just ignore the vast amount words he created.
including a VERY popular parlance on this site: "bump"

>> No.2393042

Yea, its pointless for most people to be forced to read willys writing.

The only POINT to reading is for enjoyment or information. If you dont hang around the type of people that would appreciate W.S. references thrown into conversation, don't enjoy his work, and are not reading it for academic purposes, there is no point. There is no point to pretty much any literature.

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2393046

>my face when an author is still readable by vernacular speakers of his language 500 years later

english is truly the best and worst language

>> No.2393048

>>2393040

>implying anything you said matters

>> No.2393047

Yeah Shakespeare might as well have never existed. That Caleum, on the other hand, will be talked about for centuries to come.

>> No.2393061

>>2393040
But is he relevant today?
Those words are everywhere else now. His templates are used in films that lack originality.
He is the reason Infinite Jest exists.
Fuck him

>> No.2393063

>>2393048

>implying anything matters at all

If books, films and plays "don't matter", then how does anything else?

>> No.2393072

>>2393061
His works are timeless. Your argument is invalid.

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>>2393046
>mfw I hear people say things like "why haven't they translated shakespeare"

>> No.2393074

>>2393063

Never said books films and plays didnt matter. hop off the butthurt wagon and deal with it

>> No.2393077

>>2393061

>art being relevant

It doesn't have to be relevant to anything but the individual observer/listener.
I can relate to some of Shakespeare's work, so he is relevant to me.

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>>2393074

>Makes an argument

>jeez bro chill out y u so mad?

Jesus go back to /v/

>> No.2393090

>>2393083

I made an argument. You did not. You just started stating things like i had said them. Things that didn't follow from what I said.

Thats like a non sequitur fucked a strawman and had your argument as a baby. Now don't make me address and embarrass you. Get out of here.