It doesn't hold up. The comedies are >quips, but archaic language, the histories are the equivalent of some trashy Dramatization on Netflix, and the tragedies are a combination of overwrought, retarded decision making, and stories that have been done better since.I get it's foundational to modern literature, but the collected works just aren't worth reading anymore.
you dont have a high school diploma so no one cares what you think.
Most overrated author of all time. There's a reason why his work is enjoyed by female English teachers and faggot theater kids. He had no class or taste, though I did like a Midsummer Night's Dream.
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I‘m going to take the comedy line because it‘s the one which isn‘t retarded on the face, gets repeated often, and actually has some truth in the lesser plays. I was thinking the other day of how it‘s interesting that the good ones have some ulterior reasoning behind them: Midsummer is best as a precursor to the Apollonian/Dionysian paradigm, or sef-and-shadow. Arguably a true original successor to the Greeks as such. As You Like It stands on its pastoral elements. I like that the scene locations for, I think the last three acts consecutively, are just "A different part of the woods.“ Twelfth Night is a taste of the late romances to come. Maybe Shakespeare‘s worst application of plays into closet drama as music is so essential (and where directly intended, primarily lost.) >quipsmostly applies to Love‘s Labour Lost imo, which I hated on that ground. Much Ado About Nothing is a border case but partly redeemed by the notion that they‘re bored of superfluity and fighting each other to fight something.
