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Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:03:22 2010 No.1031705 [Reply] [Original]

what's /lit/'s favorite Tragedy of the Bard?

gotta give it to Othello, man. i have not known a more disturbing bastard than Iago

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:04:22 2010 No.1031709 the cause, the cause, the cause bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:04:22 2010 No.1031710 0/10

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:05:22 2010 No.1031713 >>1031710 what's your favorite shakespeare, pal?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:06:22 2010 No.1031717 I just read King Lear in anticipation for my 2010-2011 literature course and I loved it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:07:22 2010 No.1031728 FUNFACT: Iago is a Jew.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:08:22 2010 No.1031729 File: 560 KB, 432x600, Macbeth.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this was what "Transformers" was considered back in the Elizabethan era, and i fucking love it

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:11:22 2010 No.1031753 bitches dont know about Antony and Cleopatra

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 11 22:17:22 2010 No.1031779 Macbeth easily. But I also have a soft spot for Titus Andronicus.

>>	Storm Petrel !HQmqe0QeaQ Wed Aug 11 22:23:22 2010 No.1031805 File: 67 KB, 413x600, shakespeare.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is no one going to mention Hamlet? But, The History of Troilus and Cressida up in this bitch.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 12 00:54:22 2010 No.1032331 Richard III

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 12 00:57:22 2010 No.1032334 File: 3 KB, 194x159, Trool.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Titus Andronicus

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 12 01:04:22 2010 No.1032343 Motherfucking Hamlet. Psychoses, marital infidelity, and political intrigue!

Anonymous Thu Aug 12 01:04:22 2010 No.1032344

>>1031713
The tragedies are good, but most people know them. One of my favorite under-appreciated plays is "The Winter's Tale." It has a generational scope, and meditates on the power of art to mediate the chaos of life and claim victory over the inertia of death. It's quite a play.

Anonymous Thu Aug 12 01:06:22 2010 No.1032346
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>strumpet professes love to me
>about to consummate
>alack! inspiration from the ether!
>thrust the maidenhead thrice more and begin to write viciously
>quoth she: "Get thee now to bed William!"
>my visage

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