Shakespeare

>>8369799
he's pretty good but i'm better

He's one of Marlowe's greatest inventions.

>>8369799
Overrated.

>>8369799
Never existed -- Edward de Vere was the man who wrote all the Shakespeare plays. William Shakespeare was just the pseudonym these names were published under overall.

literally who?

god tier but not as good as cervantes desu

>>8369799
no one on /lit/ knows because everyone here is still on the greeks

>>8369799
I tried getting into him in highschool but the English is too antiquated for me to understand and I don't like looking up what half the shit I am reading means every page, I think all that matters is that I understand he invented lots of literary stuff that has been repeated a million times over the years. Cool, but not interested.

>>8369824
pure nonesense, maori tribes wrote hakas with more soul 1000 years earlier

>>8370069
There were no maoris 1000 years before Shakespeare.

>>8369872
His English isn't hard and I'm not a native speaker of english

He can't hold a candle to any of the great 20th century ateurs like Bergman and Dreyer.

>>8369799

He was a degenerate nigger.

>>8369799
genius
but his comedies, with thee possible exception of midsummer and tempest, are forgettable

>>8370076
This desu, i'm french and i understand most of the text without great difficulty. Try annotated editions

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>>8370752
Kill yourselves immediately.