/lit/ - Literature

>reads for plot

>>7526183
>reads

>>7526189
>plots

>>7526207

>for

>>7526171
>>remembered as greatest writer ever

who says this? he wrote 8 or 9 plays at best. it makes him a contender with homer, dante, hafiz, proust, virgil, ovid, joyce, pynchon

>>7526233
Too bad Gass is better than everyone you just listed.

>>7526211
arrows

>>7526254
no, only good gass is on being blue

rest is shite, you trolled yourself into reading a long book!

>>7526233
>ovid
You do know Ovid never wrote anything, right? metamorphoses are just a collection of various poems he edited and claimed as his own.

>>7526233

The Divine Comedy is too religious for today's secular audiences.

>>7526282
In Search of Lost Time is too long for today´s audiences. Your point?

>>7526261
All Gass is good Gass, godless ass.

>>7526171
He was censored for going after Sir John Oldcastle. He turned up in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and the author sheepishly admitted that he was the model for Falstaff!

The fact that Shakespeare was censored (for perceived insensitivity toward a Protestant martyr) has been entirely glossed over by scholars. It does suggest that he had a mind of his own on the subject, yet it makes you wonder what the real Oldcastle was like.

In King Henry V, Falstaff dies before Agincourt, but Oldcastle actually was burned at the stake around 1417.

>>7526259
Ironic that you forgot yours

>believing a man who couldn't even sign his own name wrote anything

baka

>>7526233
>pynchon
you think you can just sneak him in like that? fuck off

>>7526233
>pynchon

when will this shitty meme end

>>7526731
Name an English King who could.

>>7526978
name an english king credited for some of the english language's most iconic works

>>7526171
>>little to no education

He went to grammar school and did very well in it.

>>7527117
plus having an education on the stage, watching and noting how actors spoke and worked.

>be Shakespeare

So, be at least 3 different authors?

>>7526171
Too bad his parents were not illiterate peasants, right? His father, at one point, held a sort of public office. Your amount of research is tumblr-tier.

>>7527264
just one, actually

>>7526171
>son of illiterate peasants
his dad was at one point a mayor
>little to no education
he went to the local grammar school
>teach self to read and write from reading books
he went to the local grammar school
>write adaptations of novels and ripped from the headlines plays
about 5 of his plays at least are 100% original

>>7527780
Holy shit, we wuz kangz and shit.

I, too, get all my history from tumblr posts

>>7526171
>son of illiterate peasants
His father was literate, served as an alderman, was a prominent member of the leather-workers guild, and was mayor of Stratford at one point. That's not a peasant.
>little to no education
Henry VIII established free Latin grammar schools throughout England which were attended by boys of Shakespeare's class.

No one disputes thar Marlowe or Jonson wrote their own plays, and they had the same class background as Shakespeare. The only difference is that they wasted time at university while Shakes jumped right into the world of theatre.

>write adaptations of novels and ripped from the headlines plays
He drew upon a wide variety of sources for his plots, but this is more evidence that plot doesn't matter all that much compared to style.

Most dramatists prior to the nineteenth century derived the majority of their plots from existing sources. We don't talk shit about Sophocles for "ripping off mythology" because the plots themselves are not the reason we pay attention to classics. No one (except perhaps an überprole) doesn't like Oedipus because the twist has been "spoilered" by cultural references.

>>7527780

we wuz poetz n shieet

>>7526731
>believing penmanship is related to writing literature

>>7527780
Wow, you learn something new every day.

>write adaptations of novels and ripped from the headlines plays

Guys, it is official now, Euripides was a faggot because Sophocles had already written a play about her.

>>7526265
and his Medea that inspired all fuckers that came after him?

>>7527994
penmanship has nothing to do with anything. the fact that those 5 signatures are written by 5 different people does. if you're so illiterate you have to have someone else sign your name, i find it improbable that you wrote many plays.

>>7529628
There is a consistent style of writing in all of those signatures. My own signature doesn't look identical every time I write it. Also, in some of those signatures he abbreviates his name, which is obviously going to look different.