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Would he have been a great novelist?

>> No.19589780

>>19589774
Better than Cervantes.

>> No.19589813

>>19589780
But would he be better than Melville?

>> No.19589832

>>19589774
No, he's a very overrated author.

>>19589780
He literally stole a plot from Cervantes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio

>> No.19589871

>>19589774

Some novelists write works that read almost as plays with some description as filler among the large passages of dialogue. Jane Austen is one example. Shakespeare could build his novels using a neutral third person narrator and investing his true gifts in the dialogue.

>> No.19590050

>>19589774
Every single character in Shakespeare books is a novel

>> No.19590124

A followup question:

Does anyone know of a writer who excelled at poetry but wrote bad novels?

>> No.19590162

>>19589774


IF HE COULD HAVE WRITTEN A NOVEL, HE WOULD HAVE; IF HE COULD HAVE BECOME A NOVELIST, HE WOULD HAVE, BUT HE ONLY EVER WROTE A FEW KITSCHY PLAYS, AND SOME SCHLOCKY SONNETS —IF HE EVEN EXISTED.

>> No.19590172

>>19589774
Novels are retarded, as in the plot has to be slowed down by introspection. Shakespeare writes poetry where the introspection is brillantly distilled and expressed in consdensed blocks within the plot. Perhaps he could have pulled it off but it is a different art form and it may be that Shakespeare is too brillant a poet to be retarded as novels require.

>> No.19590186

>>19590162
How are his play 'kitschy'?

>> No.19590244

>>19590162
>wrote a few plays
Amelia Bassano wrote the most famous plays. Shakespear is a white supremacist hack

>> No.19590250

>All these faggots seething because they failed high school English because of him

>> No.19590262

You shouldn't read Shakespeare, you should seek out performances in your area and interact with the work as it was intended. The energy of a live performance outclasses reading stage directions any day of the week.