Why read Shakespeare?

>>9628182
Why not read Shakespeare?

He understood the concepts of envy and mimesis. We are all slaves to other people's desires.

>>9628189
Time

Beauty and pleasure

if you even have to ask you should just do something else

>>9628293
Will doing so make me the Greatest Writer of all time?

>>9628182
he invented the Human

>>9628189
touché

>>9628296
Great advice anon

Shakespeare is literally harder to read than Pynchon, and with less payoff. I'm sticking to postmodern literature.

>>9628298
It certainly helped Melville, probably countless others as well.

>>9628424
Being the best American author still leaves you at like place #50 in all time great authors.

>>9628430
RLY MAKES U TINK

>>9628416
No he isn't, because Shakespeare is self-contained. With Billy, at least you know every word has a purpose within the text, and wasn't written in one night, flippantly and purposelessly, while he was scribbling acid thoughts and reading an encyclopedia.