Poll: What is the Big Deal With Bloody Shakespeare?!?!

[interspark]

when i was a kid id sit in class blocking out the noise of the teacher droning on about macbeth, subtly dreading the aweful truth that, statistically speaking, one day id probably turn into a boring sod like "them" and begin to actually like this crap too!

although here i am, approaching my 18th birthday and it seems i worried for nothing, i still think its all crap and shakespeare is still at the top of my "people to slap if i ever go back in time" list, but what about all the other escapist users? what do you think of shakespeare's works?

 

[CJ1145]

Your lack of grammar, good sir, combined with your frequent misspellings and deduced lack of intelligence, has led me to believe that you are a ninny! A twit! In other words, a quite silly man that I shall spend no more time talking to. Good day, sir!

 

[Mr Montmorency]

Apparently he's written comedy. I've never laughed once. Instead of reading some interesting material, my school made us read fucking Much Ado About Nothing, so we spend a sizeable chunk of time trying to translate the old English.

We could have read Fight Club, or Jumper. Something marginally interesting. And legible.

 

[Fraught]

Shakespear?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahaha..hahaha...hah..hah. *snorts*

Funny story, bro.

Your lack of grammar, good sir, combined with your frequent misspellings and deduced lack of intelligence, has led me to believe that you are a ninny! A twit! In other words, a quite silly man that I shall spend no more time talking to. Good day, sir!

Hahah, you said what I wanted to say but with far better insults.

 

[Faulty Turmoil]

Well, his plays are pretty good. Although the writing is a ***** to understand sometimes, but I hated it as well and im glad that I never have to do any work on him, or his plays ever again.

Also you spelt Shakespeare wrong.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I don't know, he was pretty revolutionizing at the time, but now... meh.
You still gotta have respect for him, he invented a lot of words, like "bubble". ^^
Also I'm pretty sure it's spelled "Shakespeare"

 

[Dr. Awesome Face]

I remember back in year 10 I think it was the drama teacher came into our english class and started going on about the nundertones of shakespeare's work, how emotions and feelings are universal and so on. I don't remember it that well because I didn't give a toss about Shakespeare, and that remains the same today. That same year we had to read the Merchant of Venice. The ending has always pissed me off it just feels like such a cop out. I don't exaclty know when this term is used, but I am pretty sure the ending suffers from Deus Ex Machina.

So no, I am not a fan of dear William's work. He can BURN IN HELL!!!!!

 

[JaymesFogarty]

So, you would like to, and I quote, "bitchslap," William Shakespear(e), because? Wait, why do you think his work is bad? You didn't really say anything, can you elaborate on your post please?

 

[zen5887]

Judging by your post there friend, it seems you should of paid a bit more attention in that class.

 

[fishman279]

Just my opinion, but Shakespeare's books kinda revolutionnized writing and storytelling. He also made one of the biggest contributions to the English language ever.
The stories... Well Romeo And Juliet and Macbeth are his best works but apart from that I don't really enjoy them. Mainly because he wrote in the 16th and 17th century, which is 400 years ago. Do you really think people will enjoy the Harry Potter books in 400 years time? No, because they will be seen as boring and old.
Because of this, I say "Pretty Good".

 

[Gabanuka]

He did write some of the most amazing plays of all time. However I may be biased seeing as I'm a drama nut.

(I don't know why but I seem to be the only person on earth who understands the language, I know it better then my drama teacher.)

 

[sunburst]

I love most of Shakespeare's work, though Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew are by far the best. I voted "Utterly brilliant!"

 

[Brandon237]

Objectively, it is good. Subjectively... meh, not my cup of tea.

Also the English language is your friend. No need to butcher its rules and spellings. No, really, respect it, my brain needs legible thread material in order to give a decent reply.

 

[Sebenko]

Try learning modern English before starting on old English.

 

[Dexiro]

Some of his stuff is ok but it's just so bloody boring. No idea why schools seem to whore over him so much.

 

[WolfThomas]

The stories... Well Romeo And Juliet and Macbeth are his best works but apart from that I don't really enjoy them.

Most famous works, not necessarily best. Romeo and Juliet was one of his earliest, considered unpolished compared to some of his later works.

I personally enjoy Julius Caesar despite any inaccuracies. But it's really his contribution to language that is amazing. Certainly phrases like "the game is afoot" we might be able to live without. But words like "dawn", "accommodation", "lapse" and "suspicious", among others are used all the time. Plus he gave us "new fangled" so crotchety old men can complain.

And while some have suggested the spelling in the OP is incorrect, Shakespeare frequently spelt his name different ways, even as strangely as Shaxberd.

 

[Milo Windby]

I had a English teacher who loved teaching about Shakespeare and he did it in such a way that his entire class also liked reading his work and learning about it.

I think his work is Utterly brilliant, and for those saying they don't understand his comedy... well, take a look at when it was done. It would take research to understand what was going on back then and perhaps understand the whole comedy bit of it.

 

[Layz92]

I am not a fan. I don't necessarily think that his work is bad, mind you. But it is supremely pedestrian in quality. You could do worse but you could do so much better. The greeks and romans did more for writing that he ever did. I think there is some stage of english teacher training where they are brainwashed into becoming Shakespearian acolytes. I enjoyed saying that opinion straight to english teacher's faces. The look of shock followed by annoyance they can not tell me off for having an opinion that is attacking nobody, is hilarious.

Why can't we worship the writing of say, Leo Tolstoy in schools and other places of learning. Maybe Orwell, though he is respected he seems strangely absent from schools. I have one case of animal farm being the book of the semester but that is it.

 

[Wadders]

If you're gonna slag the guy off, at least spell his fucking name right.