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2849629 No.2849629 [Reply] [Original]

I'm planning on reading Hamlet from personal interest, but the only other Shakespeare I've read is Romeo and Juliet, and I didn't care for that at all.

Should I go in expecting to come out feeling the same about Hamlet? Are the plays similar in structure/style/technique/whatever?

>> No.2849639

Utterly different

>> No.2849674

They're both tragedies. Beyond that and the fact they're speaking stylized Elizabethan English, no, there's very little in common.
One of the things that's puzzled/awed people about Shakespeare for a very long time is the breadth and variety of his works. He has plays that can all be put together in little groups, but overall, his works have huge disparities in themes and subject, somewhat because of his frequent borrowing and distortion of other stories.

>> No.2849678

less jokey more enigmatic

>> No.2849680

>>2849674

OR HE WAS DIFFERENT PEOPLE

>> No.2849683

I hope you guys are right. Romeo and Juliet made me want to blow my brains out.

>> No.2849691

>>2849674

Romeo & Juliet is a far less conventional tragedy than Hamlet. It has comic elements mixed in with the tragedy (like the marriage).

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2849695

>>2849680
>this is what people who think English lit dissertations are factually accurate actually believe
Uh-huh, and the Apollo program was a hoax, keep on revealing the magic tricks of history, you intrepid investigator you.

>> No.2849707

>>2849629
Don't bother with Shakespeare.

>> No.2849715

>>2849707

Don't listen to this, it's crazy talk. Shakespeare was quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived.

>> No.2849740

>>2849715
troll detected

>> No.2849742

>>2849740

moron detected

>> No.2849765

>>2849742
>quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived.

Really? Really really? You're cuntjuice.

Not even in the top 10 000.

>> No.2849769

>>2849765

>implying I'm that guy
>implying Shakespeare isn't in the top 1,000 at least

>> No.2849772

>>2849629
Bother with Shakespeare, it's worth it. All the more so that you can read him in English. But the best would still be to see it on stage.

Hamlet is really different from Romeo and Juliet. It is much...stranger (I once read a paper from a Polish specialist of Shakespeare who wrote it could the strangest play ever created). Try it, and if you don't like it, you were probably in a bad mood, so wait a few years and try it again.

>> No.2849790

The more Shakespeare you read the more you will understand about what makes him so great, and what makes plays like Romeo and Juliet masterpieces.