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>read the divine comedy
>I understand what is happening

>read hamlet
>wtf are these people saying everything is monologues what is this shit

seriously, Shakesbeer sucks

>> No.2810313

Did you read the Divine Comedy in the original Italian?

>> No.2810314

>I understand what is happening.
No you can't, Mr. Simpson. No one can.

>> No.2810322

Ah, good. Now without googling, explain to me what 'Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smaritta...' answers to in English, otherwise you haven't read the Comedy which Boccaccio called Divine.

>> No.2810324

Perhaps Shakespeare should have structured his play where Hamlet goes somewhere and sees things and describes to the audience what he sees.

He could have called it Prospero: A Masque of Gibberish.

>> No.2810369

>>2810322
I haven't read it and I only studied Italian in highschool, but I understand that. It's a most classic quote, for fuck's sake. You disgust me, not understanding that shit.

>> No.2811006

>>2810311

>read the divine comedy
>I understand what is happening

No, you didn't. You thought you understood. The beauty of Dante lies in what you have to read into the text to see. Go back with a commentary and see what else you can garner.

>> No.2811025

Hamlet is god-tier, and by no means a simple read, but an accomplish reader should not have trouble discerning the flow of that beautiful play.

OP, I truly pity you. Hamlet is a beautiful work.

>> No.2811067
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2811067

>i am a pleb and can't understand the greatest works of all time