William Shakespeare

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and was he truly the greatest writer to live so far, at least in the Occidental world, in your opinion of course? Better than Homer, Dante, Goethe?

>shakespeare

umm first off, literally who tf is shakespeare?

And secondly what kind of gay name is that??

It sounds like a name my brother would use as a prank on the phone

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Favourite play is definitely Othello.
> O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

He can suck me off?

Lear > Hamlet

I dont like 'rating' artists but if you want one I think he's in a trifecta with Sophocles and Aeschylus as the great Western dramatists. Don't know much about Oriental drama.

What are your favorite film adaptations of his plays?

>>9901419
He can shake my spear.

>>9902071
Peter Brook's Lear with Paul Scofield

tell me about your favorite editions of the complete works and why

>>9900839
Best play is King Lear. Worst, for me at least, are the Henry VI plays - what a fucking snore fest.

>>9901436
Euripides was the best Greek dramatist m8.