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>> No.19543057

>>19543015
I mean, he isn't wrong.

>> No.19543060

>>19543057
Well, no. He is wrong.

>> No.19543066

>>19543060
Shakespeare is fine, but there are many more people deserving of the praise that he gets.

>> No.19543102

>>19543066
Amen. People have now begrudgingly realized that Tolstoy is above him as a writer.

>> No.19543111

Yeah Shakespeare has none of that, what he has is life, my coping ESL

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>>19543102
>Tolstoy
If you'd said Pushkin maybe there could be a debate. You probably just named the only Russian writer you've read.

>> No.19543121

ESLs will never get over the fact that the greatest writer is in English

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>>19543119
It doesn't matter what you think. The professionals have spoken.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books/

>> No.19543140

>>19543119
I actually find some bits of Pushkin even better than anything Shakespeare wrote though it's very close

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>“Front and center here, Grizzly and Hellken,” he began to order them. “You too, Deaddog. Curlybeard, take charge of a squad of ten.
>Take Grafter and Dragontooth along with you. Pigtusk, Catclaw, Cramper, and Crazyred. Keep a sharp lookout on the boiling glue.”

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>>19543133
Oh no no no

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Soft you; a word or two before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.

>> No.19543193

>>19543102
>realized that Tolstoy is above him as a writer.
Do you even know Russian?

>>19543133
The state of Anti-Shakespeare fags

>>19543140
How could you compare the best Russian to the best English? Why do they even need to be compared?

>>19543015
This thread was retarded and you are a joke who read like 2 of his plays and got filtered.

>>19543152
It's as if literature didn't start until the late Eighteen-hundreds lol