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Anonymous Sat Jul 22 16:52:37 2023 No.22293031 [Reply] [Original]

A big part of his supposed genius was commonplace back then. He only seems esoteric and mysterious to us because of his obscure language. He was forgotten until Voltaire or some faggot revived him from oblivion and now every literary academist jerks off about how amazing he was while in truth he was alright for the times. There's nothing in Shakespeare that doesn't also happen in other artists from the period.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 16:53:38 2023 No.22293033 >>22293031 oh yeah? name 3 other artists from that period who are comparable

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 16:55:05 2023 No.22293040 >>22293031 I am less emotionally invested in Shakespear than I am in traffic cones but I respect that traffic cones get the job done and so does Shake spear in his English lessons that make cringe high school teachers seethe

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 16:58:35 2023 No.22293048 >>22293031 >He was forgotten until Voltaire wrong

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:03:56 2023 No.22293057 >>22293031 >He was forgotten until Voltaire That's why Jonson, Milton and Dryden all praised him to the skies in the 17th century, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:06:51 2023 No.22293063 Do you have this post on a clipboard somewhere that you paste here every time Shakespeare gets brought up? Literally the same img file and everything

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 23:19:15 2023 No.22294220 >>22293057 OP B T F O Many such cases!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 23:22:34 2023 No.22294239 >>22293057 Forgotten by Europeans, not island monkeys.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 23:28:20 2023 No.22294259 >>22294239 Shakespeare wasn't translated until well into the 18th century, so how could they forget him?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 23:30:35 2023 No.22294269 >>22294259 In English. Voltaire read him in English. You think everyone is a retarded monolingual? Think again.

Anonymous Sun Jul 23 00:08:49 2023 No.22294398

>>22294269
Voltaire was one of the very first continental European intellectuals to read English because he was a weird anglophile.

It's simply a fact that as soon as people outside of England read Shakespeare for the first time, he was recognised as a genius.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 23 00:12:45 2023 No.22294411 Shakespeare himself writes that not everything in his plays could be understood by everyone and that the majority of people just came for the plot

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 23 00:14:09 2023 No.22294418 >>22294411 The crypto-Catholic messages in his work can only be understood by Catholics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 23 08:57:18 2023 No.22295626 >>22293031 https:// discord gg/RhPfkBpE

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 23 12:07:58 2023 No.22295894 File: 38 KB, 480x491, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22295626 what is this groomcord

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 23 12:17:50 2023 No.22295909 >>22293031 Demonstrably untrue. Literally nobody gives a shit about Restoration era plays that came out not more than a century after.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 23 13:17:01 2023 No.22296012 >>22293031 Get why gatekeeping exists now.

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