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What makes him so good? His enduring metaphors?
What makes him be thought of so highly?

>> No.17339987

>>17339979
He's hot.

>> No.17339993

>>17339987
same, billy boy has a serious erotic quality. i'd like to undress him

>> No.17340007

>>17339979
he was a SEX haver. you can feel it in his writing. this guy FUCKED

>> No.17340180

>>17340007
What is like to hace sex bros?

>> No.17340188

>>17339979
His works have infiltrated the cultural consciousness like basically no other persons has since the bible. I can't understate how often i've heard phrases like "to thine own self be true" in places like AA/NA meetings by people who havent read him. Pretty interesting stuff.

>> No.17340190

>>17339979
English teachers like him so underages who want to seem smart just parrot what they say without thinking for themselves.

>> No.17340194

He's the wittiest motherfucker who ever put pen to paper.

>> No.17340233

>>17339979
>What makes him so good? His enduring metaphors?

HE WAS MEDIOCRE.


>What makes him be thought of so highly?

THE ANGLOSUPREMACISTIC PROPAGANDA MACHINE.

>> No.17340281

>>17339979
He was supremely clever. Other writers are perhaps deeper but Shakespeare is the cleverest and the most sensual. A lot of it has to do with when he was writing and the unique aspects of the English language, that is during the time of Elizabeth when the language was less standardized and there was fertile ground for such shows of linguistic experimentation and daring that abound in his writings. Something like Love's Labour's Lost could never be written today or ever again. In Shakespeare you get the sense that this was a man stretching language to its absolute limits and succeeding brilliantly at it, and that in itself is moving.

>> No.17340292

>>17340233
Seethe harder ESL loser.

>> No.17340296

>>17339979
He made the english language sound good in verse

>> No.17340305

>>17340188
>>17340281
Good responses, thanks

>> No.17340313

>>17340292


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>> No.17340330

>>17340194
What are examples of his wittiness?

>> No.17340339

>>17340330
Read LLL. It's essentially just a bunch of nobles trying to outwit each other. It's good fun

>> No.17340437

>>17340339
Okay, will do

>> No.17340514

>>17339979
He's a hack.

>> No.17341379

Characterological precision. And verse with bite. He mapped out the European character with exactness. The plots are frankly strange or fumbling but behind the main attractions there is something more perceptive at work. The Greek character which he outlines in Timon of Athens for example, is later picked up on by Ruskin and the portrait is unchanged, just more fully rounded out. Pericles Prince of Tyre says something about Phoenician society, but also about Shakespeare's Catholic views on Protestantism... every over-ambitious Scot will remain a Macbeth, every meditative, abstracting Dane a Hamlet.

Macbeth, Hamlet and Pericles are remarkably astute by themselves. Pericles is the spirit of the ancient world, Hamlet of the Mediaeval one, and Macbeth betokens the modern world. Romeo + Juliet, Antony + Cleopatra, Petruccio + Katherina, Coriolanus + his mom... he said everything that needed to be said about politics in his History Plays, everything that needed to be said about family in his Comedies.

>> No.17341424

>>17339979
Deft insights into human psychology, that and puns. Lots of puns.

>> No.17341431

>>17340180
>Hace
You are closer to 'hate' than 'have'

>> No.17341447

>>17341379
Are you just very well read or is there an analysis of Shakespeare that you have read?

>> No.17341483

Demigod level verbal IQ. Absolute mastery of his language.

>> No.17341493

>>17339979
I’ve been reading his dark lady sonnets lately. Good shit.

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17341496

>>17341447
>Are you just very well read or is there an analysis of Shakespeare that you have read?
I've read a few scholars on Shakes. I own the Shakespeare book of Characters, the Dictionary of Quotations, the complete Plays. The French playwrights like the guy who made Becket are more conversational, but I prefer W.S. Started probably with Ken Branagh's adaptations in school... I daydream about making certain adaptations of the Bard's work... I'd like to see an 18th century spin on Macbeth kind of in the Roger Corman mold of Poe adaptations, etc. I draw characters with Shakespeare quotations habitually. I'm not the closest reader but enjoy restructuring dialogue and building on the five act format.

>> No.17341500

>>17339979
Demonic possession.

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>>17341496
*edit*