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Discuss.

>> No.6594308
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>>6594302

>> No.6594307

sublime

>> No.6594311

>>6594302
holy shit

>> No.6594313

If it gets somebody to read and maybe enjoy Shakespeare when they wouldn't have done so otherwise, then good. Who cares.

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>>6594302

>> No.6594327

>>6594302
its cute. Probably targeted towards teens, maybe a little gimmicky but its not anything to be taken seriously.

>> No.6594328

A true example of the amalgamation of post-modern posturings; bureaucracy.

>> No.6594359

>>6594313
Pretty sure that not reading Shakespeare at all is better than reading this.

>> No.6594365

>>6594302
>Claudius says "#sorrynotsorry"

>> No.6594379

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>> No.6594380

>>6594359
Exactly. Shakespeare is important for the way he wrote every bit as much as for what he wrote. These monstrosities remove the whole point of reading his works at all.

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>people without smartphones

>> No.6594399

I thought that 'txt spk' had already been killed by predictive text?

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>>6594302

>> No.6594683

>>6594327
This. It's funny, nothing to get upset about.

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I'm not entirely sure I understand this.

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Pretty cool, hope it becomes best-seller.

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>>6594302

>> No.6595868

>>6594302
If only there was one for The Brothers Karamazov

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>>6594302

>> No.6595901

>>6594422
thanks for the pepe friend

>> No.6595956

Eagerly awaiting Ulysses, Fam

>> No.6595959

>>6594683
>It's funny
Nah. I'm not on board with this growing literary genre of gimmicky parodies of classic fiction. It appears mainly in the form of cheap, mass-marketed paperbacks aimed at impulse-buyers, soccer moms, and teenagers, and I'm sure it's profitable enough, but most of the people buying these books have never read their source material in the first place. they purchase pride and prejudice and zombies or emoji versions of the divine comedy not to laugh at the clever jokes and humorous insights into classic literature, but to feel a brief moment of self-aware superiority to the coveted works of art that they've always been confused or bored by.

Modern consumerism caters to our psychological need to disrespect authority and overcome feelings of intellectual inferiority. I think it's pretty sad and pretty pathetic. Being challenged and being confused is a good thing, it's not something to fear or mock. I think that when people give money and attention to Sharknado 7: The Most Ironically Ridiculous One Yet, they're supporting intellectual stagnation and avoiding uncomfortable truths about their own insecurity around art. It's not a good thing to have an industry built around making people feel superior to what they're consuming. Consciously making bad art is still making bad art IMO

>> No.6595961

>>6594302
who gives a heck

>> No.6595970

>>6595959
*sniff* pure ideology

>> No.6596050

Do they misinterpret any of the characters or motives? They're essentially adapting the whole story right?

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>>6595959

Epic Rap Battles of history does like this and still gets people to feel interested in the references done.

You don't need to read the whole collection of Shakespeare's works to enjoy some foolish thing you know it's embarrassing to use as reference.

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>>6595956
Why not the whole meme trilogy?

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>>6596116

>Hisself

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>>6596116

>I'd like that.
>A lot.

>> No.6596162

>>6596116
They won't even have to change the IJ ebonics chapter

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>the superior version

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>>6594302
What about this? The words are the same, just with some parts edited out. Is it good or bad?

>> No.6596325

funny

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>>6594380
I use to try and be edgy, saying Shakespeare was plagued by card-board cut out characters and used deus ex machina to a fault.

But after exploring a lot of Chinese literature, I think the only indispensable criticism of literature is aesthetic value. And Shakespeare's prose are pure aesthetics.

What I'm trying to say is that this book isn't "shakespeare." It's the same story he uses, but not Shakespeare. So I don't see how we can compare them or get upset. All we can do is sit in the dark hunched over over computers satisfied that we're better than everyone else.

>> No.6598001

wtf

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>>6594302
It's like a bunch of 80 year olds trying way too hard to connect with the youth

>> No.6598125

>>6594328
Go back to /pol/ you fucking pleb