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1451514 No.1451514 [Reply] [Original]

Do you like this? Why?

Why should I read it other than the fact that it's a Shakespearean classic and the object of many allusions?

>> No.1451522

No, I don't like it. I fucking hate it. The only Shakespeare that was worth reading was "King Lear". Coming from an English major.

>> No.1451524

>>1451522
OP here. I liked Othello a lot more.

>> No.1451526

>>1451522
>Coming from an English major.

As if that makes your opinion any more valid. Fuck off and die.

>> No.1451530

>>1451526
>as if you contributed anything to this thread/board

>> No.1451546

>>1451522
You're a pretentious hipster fuckwad if you dismiss Shakespeare. I am ashamed to be in the same major as you.

>> No.1451556

>>1451546
>Only one opinion can be valid

He's not the pretentious one.

>> No.1451574

>>1451546

>ashamed to be in the same major as you

hmmphhh

What a plebe.

>> No.1451576

>>1451556
Saying that about Shakespeare is like calling a historian pretentious because he disregards opinions saying Stalin's regime is economically sound. It's an opinion, and it's a stupid one. One is not necessarily pretentious by disregarding it.

>> No.1451580

Quite possibly the greatest play ever written. Hamlet's condition is so universal that basically anything written after it (and quite possibly before it) could be seen to be a variation on its theme.

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>>1451580
A relevant post? This must be a rule violation!

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>>1451574
>uses the word "plebe"

>> No.1451604

I find the dialogue clever, the speeches exciting, and the themes easy to identify with. That is enough.

I'm also a great fan of Henry the Fifth, Othello, and Macbeth. Merchant of Venice, Lear, and the Tempest are just all right with me.

Romeo and Juliet, in spite of it's widespread popularity with douchebags and teenagers, is quite good.

>> No.1451619

>>1451600
It's just a /mu/ meme.

>> No.1451620

>>1451546 Just cause I have my degree in English doesn't mean that I have to like Shakespeare. I thought it was boring

>> No.1451673

>>1451620
Well, it does mean that you're stupid. If you thought Hamlet was boring you didn't get it. Don't give me this subjective relativist bullshit, it was just too fucking deep for you.

We have 1 English major vs an entire world of academics and successful writers.

>> No.1451680

>>1451620
>>1451620
looooooool retard detected!

>> No.1451704

>>1451620
Do you also think the entire human condition is "boring?"

>> No.1451735

There are other books and other writers/playwrights who are as powerful/meaningful to the human condition than Shakespeare and "Hamlet".

>> No.1451758

For example:
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.1451805

>>1451735
Sure, but they all owe a huge debt to Shakespeare.

>> No.1451818

>>1451522
I like Shakespeare. I find reading him very enjoyable. Coming from a science major. DER HER.

>> No.1451822

Cannot dismiss Hamlet, the more you try the more you fail. Still in my top five of all the Shakespeare plays and I am also an "English major" not that I wanted to point that out because it's completely irrelevant

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1451835

Hamlet is great but Falstaff is my favourite.

(I'm referring to the characters themselves)

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