/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23245172]

What would English /lit/erature be like if Bill Shakespeare never put pen to paper?

[Anonymous No.23245178]

he didn't write books dickhead

[Anonymous No.23245197]

>>23245178
Correct. He wrote plays.

[Anonymous No.23245200]

>>23245178
Are you saying he didn't put pen to paper?

[Anonymous No.23245201]

>>23245172
We would lose masterpieces like the Merchant of Venice.

[Helpless Investor No.23245206]

>>23245172
We would lose masterpieces like the Merchant of Venice.

[Anonymous No.23245208]

>>23245172
A lot of words wouldn’t exist. Not only did he influence grammar, but he increased the English vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.23245242]

>>23245172
It'd be as unremarkable as Finnish or Indian literature. We'd probably lose all our cultural export if it wasn't for this nigga, ranging from Dickens to Doctor Who

[Aspiring Investor No.23245243]

>>23245172
"Doing your mom" would never have entered popular English usage, and we would be a much poorer culture for jt.

[Anonymous No.23245251]

>>23245200
Not without another handing guiding it. Isn't it strange that his funerary monument was originally just him holding a sack of wool or grain? But that didn't fit the myth of him being the greatest English writer of all time, so a pen and paper were added later...

[Anonymous No.23245291]

>>23245172
He didn't, just like Plato didn't. Grow up.

[Anonymous No.23245304]

>>23245251
>>23245291
Meds.

[Anonymous No.23245323]

>>23245251
The weirdest thing about this is that he had the same reversed arm thing as the Droeshout portrait.

[Rich Investor No.23245361]

[Anonymous No.23245389]

>>23245361
Stupid rapist

[Anonymous No.23245419]

>>23245323
Alright I'll bite. What the fuck are you on about?

[Anonymous No.23245687]

>>23245323
Basically proves that there are secret authors who not only wrote the books but the wrote the authors as well.

[Anonymous No.23246699]

>schizos still trying to erase Shakespeare from history