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Why did Shakespeare use such retarded language?

No matter how you look at it, tone in his dialogue is a flaw. Every character speaks to one another in monologues. That's stupid.

Sometimes they drop out of it and talk like people. It sounds blissful every time, but solely by the merit of them being nugets of adequate speech among the disjointed siloliquies.

>> No.686687

Because drama is not supposed to idealize life, not imitate it.

>> No.686697

>>686687

It IS supposed to*

>> No.686699

>>686687
You ARE suppsoed to imitate human speech, though, unless you don't want your characters to talk.

You know, even in the most abstract of arts, music, imitating human speech is the main device. It is one thing you don't want to fuck up: natural rhythm of speech.

>> No.686708

>>686699

But speech is ugly.

>> No.686719

>>686699

If you have a decent company putting on shakespeare, everything- monologues and all- sounds natural.

Shakespeare is meant to be seen, not read.

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>>686719
this

>> No.686738

>Implying that modern aesthetic values can or should be applied to art from a different period
>>686699
like in Noh theatre?

You all fail, look up the word "anachronism".

>> No.686742

>>686719
Well. But where is one supposed to find good productions? They seem to have stopped doing normal Shakespeare, like, a century a half ago. It's true I'm reading him and not watching, but fuck me if I know how I'm supposed to watch him. Going to the theatre sounds fucking stupid: it's BOUND to be mediocre stuff.

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>>686742
0/10

>> No.686756

I prefer reading him, that way I can actually understand what the fuck they're jabbering about.

I wish plays could have closed captioning.

>> No.686761

ITT we get trolled.

>> No.686782

>>686761
I thought this was a possibility but posted ayway, there are some retards who actually think like this,

>> No.686784

>>686761
ITT you're a fucking idiot.

>> No.686837

Because he was a neoclassical writer, a genre as rigid as modern punk rock

>> No.686840

>>686837
haha i'm trying to imagine a pre-modern post rock. would it be steam punk?

>> No.686859

>>686837

>Because [Shakespeare] is a neoclassical writer

THEN WHO WAS TROLL?

(no he wasn't, at all)