Was Shakespeare unprecedented? Was his wit and devilishly slick

No.

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If you've read Juvenal and Chaucer, it will seem less unprecedented...

Marlowe was just as good if not better

If I would compare Jonson with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

>>7627584
Not even the biggest literary hipster would claim that Marlowe was more skilled than Shakes. I mean, Doctor Faustus is okay and all, but come on man.

>>7627615
thats because Shakespeare was basically taught by him. Its like what Socrates is to Plato

All he did was take the concepts of ancient Greek plays from classical antiquity and place them in more contemporary settings, adding in themes of absurdist nihilism

>>7627627
LMAO dude it was literally that easy!!

>>7627621
>Its like what Socrates is to Plato

The case where the student surpasses the master?

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>mfw Shakespeare invented the human as he know it today
>mfw literally every one of your inner most thoughts is wrapped up in Shakespeare's creations

Shakespeare wrote his plays with his acting troupe; he was just the owner and lead writer and so his name represented them all. Case closed.

>>7627627
>All

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>>7627627
>shakespeare
>absurdist
>nihilism

>>7627652
>this is what Bloom actually believes

lmao

>>7627760
I guess you haven't read King Lear then.

>>7627760
>>7627879

or henry IV or Hamlet or Macbeth

>>7627879
>>7628110

chronology is hard

He was actually a alium. Thass why hes so god.

>>7627760

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