Who is better, Shakespeare or Cervantes?This is absolutely political because it settled the age-old rivalry between Spain and England
>>536923730I can't read Cervantes except in translation, so I'm not the best judge. Shakespeare at his best (about a dozen plays) is unbeatable. But Shakespeare's lesser works are inferior to DQ.
>>536923730Goethe. But Shakespeare was a great genius too. I improved my English by translating "Macbeth". > Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.> The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.Fucking awesome.
>>536923730Shakespeare was a propagandist who had a team of crown loyalist writers producing drafts for him to finish what amounts to old timey romcomsCervantes was dabbing on the spanish crown and spaniards in general and DQ needs extremely high IQ and historical knowledge to be understood properly
>>536923730>Guy who writes old timely marvel slop for goy cattle>Man who writes 4chan green text before 4chan
>asks illiterate retards on /pol/Jesusmaestrada historica
>>536923730Shakespeare was way funnier, plus I'm biased.
>>536923730Shakespeare's is still a literally who outside of EFL countries. Cervantes has been translated worldwide and Don Quixote is enjoyed by all beyond language barriers and historical contexts. Novels as we know them own immensely to Cervantes, he's the pioneer, if not the founder, of such literally style.This entire """rival""" is made up by bongs for their own publicity, similar to the """"""rivalry""""""" of Napoleon against meme of shitington.>>536924384>GoetheBased. You guys should publicize him more.
>>536928082>Shakespeare's is still a literally who outside of EFL countries.Not really. He's been translated into German and Russian and performed there fairly regularly. Kurosawa made three film adaptions of Shakespeare's plays.
>>536926638>>Man who writes 4chan green text before 4chanShakespeare?
>>536928327Germans hate themselves and Russians are hacks when their entire literature amounts to "muh depression in authoritarian shithole" crap. Japs have always been inspired by American pop culture and myths, their obsession with American animation and frontiers are well recorded.Which no one knows about besides those who are very enthusiastic.Don Quixote being a retard chasing after fairy tales is far more ingrained in popular imagination.
>>536928327the fact that the brit empire's propaganda can be transposed into any other cultural context and adapted without any loss of meaning should make it clear that it is simply drama slop
>>536928590>Russians are hacksOh, come on. Their literature ranks with the very best. >Don Quixote being a retard chasing after fairy tales That's a bit reductive, don't you think?
Shakespeare quotes the Talmud and is disqualified on this basis.
>>536928663Shakespeare's plots are all recycled from earlier, well-known sources. Everyone knows that. It's what he stuffs into them--his language, his imagery, his poetic mastery--that makes them great.
>>536928082>Goethe is basedHe and Schiller were internationalist mason scum. Disqualified. You want great German stories? Read the Hildebrandtsaga or Nibelungensaga. Fuck all masonic writers.
>>536924384What’s your favorite work by Goethe, anon. I’ve read sorrows of young werther, but I haven’t read anything other than a few of his poems. What would you recommend?
>>536928327Kurosawa was a communist. You guys need to do a more careful review of the guys whose works you idolise.
>>536929051>Kurosawa was a communist.He was a member of the communist party?
>>536923730Shakespeare and it's not even remotely close.
>>536929133Didn't he just plagiarize all that shit?
>>536929186The plots, yes.
>>536928792>Oh, come on. Their literature ranks with the very best.Idk, living in this shithole myself, I can predict their entire stories and find nothing absolutely special about them. It's just misery porn.I have read Dostoevsky and Goncharov. Chekhov is a meme now with how his story play out the same. Tolstoy is an absolute joke with his books always devolving midway into "boo hoo Napoleon and liberalism le bad TSAAARRR and autocratic oppression le good because I'm an aristocratic faggot" because his uncle got BTFO at the Battle of Borodino and their entire house was humiliated.>That's a bit reductive, don't you think?You're right. Ali Khamenei (rest in piss) is a better figure for Don Quixote.>Israel will be destroyed>In two more weeksNow that I think about it, dunalf blumpf and his imaginary deals are also similar to Don Quixote.>>536928993>Muh freemason lizardsReactionary scum detected, opinion discarded.
>>536923730>don't get me started
