How the hell did he do it? Not just create one great work but to create as many as he did?
I was just reading romeo and juliet and started laughing because of how good it is. Just a "fricking hell that's good shit"
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natural genius, unironically.
to add to this -
you can say many things about the purported merits of writing in iambic pentameter, but one thing is for certain - it's really fricking hard. one shakespare play is about the same work as five or six modern plays, being generous.
there is a reason so many theories abound that cast shakespeare as anything but a singular, sober, (relatively) middle-class man - because the odds of him being as such in light of his work seem astronomical
>because the odds of him being as such in light of his work seem astronomical
I would give those theories more credence if he was merely a very very good writer, let's say like Marlowe. But this kind of genius isn't explained by some top-notch education or having rich-people-hobbies as a kid. We can sample all his contemporary writers with the best available education, none are in the same ballpark.
Reminds me a bit of Jakob Böhme, a simple cobbler who one day had a mystic experience and then wrote some beautiful early German philosophy.
actually that was something recognised even in his own time, i think ben jonson admitted was capable of things his learned peers simply weren't
>Not just create one great work but to create as many as he did
Great is subjective
>I was just reading romeo and juliet and started laughing because of how good it is
Your opinion
obviously, moron
>Great is subjective
That is subjective.
>Your opinion
Your opinion.
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he had a little help
He lived in the golden age of the English language.
I'm not kidding. Read the metaphysical poets. The Elizabethan age was GOAT.
He was just that great. He’s my favorite writer of all time and though he’s popular I’m always happy to see others be outspoken in their appreciation of him
What’s our favorite lines bros?
For me it's
>Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
>“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
>Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”
seconded
this line fills me with an indescribable urgency to... idk actually. Experience life? Figure it all out? It's great whatever it is
>What’s our favorite lines bros?
I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
Damn that does hit wtf I'm going to read some shakespeade
More matter with less art
de vere credited his inspiration to god
Hamlet is a non-binary black lesbian with a glock and an iPhone.
lol my university theater company also did black hamlet this year
Do the people staging these realize that having Shakespearean characters with obnoxious black people is neither new nor entertaining?
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He stole some black girl's writings, Shakespeare did not write a single word in his entire pathetic life. Anyone who can dispute this has no proof of otherwise.
>b-but muh heckerino groomer play
>muh iambic pentameter garbage writing
Not an excuse for bad writing.
>He stole some black girl's writings,
wtf I didn't know Shakespeare was based
flat earth tier conspiracy
>some black girl
You could have at least learnt her name for your bait anon. Poor effort
It was his job. The theatre needed two or three new scripts a year.
He had to focus on bums on seats, spreading the parts around the company, making sure the comedian had something to do.
That working environment made the plays better - they are alive and actable and engaging in a way a more focused intellectual writer wouldn't have managed.
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Sorry OP but in this thread there isn't a big argument between Christians and Nietzche readers yet so I'm feeling a sort of obligation to derail this thread.
Anyway Shakespeare was a Christian so he's cucked and should be ignored and only English majors that LARP as intellectuals read him.