Poll: What is the Big Deal With Bloody Shakespeare?!?!
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His stuff is just... the bedrock for a HUGE amount of the English language; he, Milton and Chaucer are the 3 greatest wordsmiths ever in our language and so if you think you'd be talking the way you do if he wasn't around you're deluded.
Edit: Oh, and the plays are THE SHIT, as are his sonnets - funny, filthy minded and generally awesome once you get to know em.
Edit: Oh, and the plays are THE SHIT, as are his sonnets - funny, filthy minded and generally awesome once you get to know em.
Comedy =/= Funny. Comedy = opposite of tragedy. Tragedy = bad ending. Comedy = good ending, not necessarily funny.Mr Montmorency said:
...Well, it kind of a big deal.
H ecoined new words, open up a brand way of storytelling and his plays arn't half bad.
Plus I'm on team Capulet.
H ecoined new words, open up a brand way of storytelling and his plays arn't half bad.
Plus I'm on team Capulet.
His comedies, however, were hilarious. Unfortunately, it doesn't leap out of the page -- especially today, when the language is just different enough that it's hard to understand. Reading silently doesn't cut it; it has to be acted aloud. In that case, assuming the lines are delivered correctly and the audience is following closely enough along, people fall out of their chairs from laughing. Even his tragedies had quite a lot of comic relief.TheTaco007 said:
If you really find him boring read Titus Andronicus. It'll change your opinion of him instantly as well as give you a new appreciation of meat pies.
Otherwise, he is a great writer and playwright but I can't deny he is on a bit of a pedestal that isn't that necessary. Oh well, still better than Twilight.
Otherwise, he is a great writer and playwright but I can't deny he is on a bit of a pedestal that isn't that necessary. Oh well, still better than Twilight.
His works are frankly brilliant for his time, he was pioneer for his day in his art.
You lack of grammar and spelling only hurt your case in your "critique" of one of the greatest masters of the English language of all time.
Also, while you may not like him or his work, you can at least do him credit by spelling his bloody name right. Seriously.
You lack of grammar and spelling only hurt your case in your "critique" of one of the greatest masters of the English language of all time.
Also, while you may not like him or his work, you can at least do him credit by spelling his bloody name right. Seriously.
Dude, don't read Shakespeare, watch Shakespeare. While his plays are completely brilliant however you choose to experience them, I find them best when performed. The BBC has done most of Shakespeare's plays, which are available on youtube in their totality.
Once you learn how to read Shakespeare, his plays get a lot funnier, since you understand the syntax.
As for my favorite play, Othello. Iago is the best villain ever written.
As for my favorite play, Othello. Iago is the best villain ever written.
What's the deal with bloody Shakespear? Shake spear, no more bloody. Ungah-bungah! (Of course you mean Shakespeare. I know that silly!)
Um, Shakespear(e) basically invented English as we know it. And literature. And drama. Basically, it's the only culture we white people are allowed to have so leave it alone!
I don't think he's the best in the world, but he's really dang good and we owe him a ton. So I say yay for Shakespear(e)!
Honestly, if you take away all the "Themes"(trademark) that English teachers try to cram down your throat about him, he's REALLY GOOD. If it wasn't for the school system, a lot more people would be fans of him. Especially since he's got a dirty streak a mile and a half wide. Really, the number of sex jokes in there is RIDICULOUS, you'd think the internet would be all over him.
I don't think he's the best in the world, but he's really dang good and we owe him a ton. So I say yay for Shakespear(e)!
Honestly, if you take away all the "Themes"(trademark) that English teachers try to cram down your throat about him, he's REALLY GOOD. If it wasn't for the school system, a lot more people would be fans of him. Especially since he's got a dirty streak a mile and a half wide. Really, the number of sex jokes in there is RIDICULOUS, you'd think the internet would be all over him.
1. THE playwright of the day
2. Invented almost half of all modern-day euphemisms, sayings and expressions
3. Good stories
I hate Romeo and Juliet, though. The two titular characters are thick twits.
2. Invented almost half of all modern-day euphemisms, sayings and expressions
3. Good stories
I hate Romeo and Juliet, though. The two titular characters are thick twits.
Shakespeare was one of the greatest users of the English language ever. Once you get used to how it is written it makes a whole lot more sense and genuinely funny, imaginative and intelligent.
I bite my thumb at thee, sir.
I bite my thumb at thee, sir.
He is one of the fathers of modern English... His work requires more thinking to read because it is about four hundreds years old. And I have a hard time taking the opinion of somebody possessing your grammatical skill seriously in regards to what is "good" literature.
*awesome face*
*awesome face*
Heh, I found is stuff to be above average. It's better than most of the stuff I had to read in school. Then I read Grapes of Wrath, and I found that Steinbeck is far better than most of the stuff I was forced to read in school.
