/lit/ - Literature

What are the oldest texts you can read in your language without a dictionary?
>English
>16th century writings like The Faerie Queene or Shakespeare's plays

>If snow be white, why then her breats are dun

If we knew anything about this man, his life, or his personal beliefs, he and his work would not be as interesting. We are lucky he left behind no diaries, interviews, and none of his neighbors ever left a journal making a note about him. This is something authors don't understand: just do the work and shut the fuck up. Pull a Pynchon.

What writer/playwright comes close to or surpasses Shakespeare?

Why does iambic pentameter sound so good? Shorter lines are often too punchy (though this can be an asset in some cases) and longer lines drag, while non-iambic feet just sound goofy outside a very few counterexamples.

Which novelist is equivalent to Shakespeare?

What’s the point of reading a book that doesn’t make sense? No one talks like that anymore

What author do high schools make all students read in your country?
>USA
>Shakespeare (I assume this is also true in every other anglophone country)

When I think of Tolstoy, all that comes to mind is that he decided to mog himself by criticizing Shakespeare, forever creating a comparison between him and the GOAT

If a $1 trillion price tag was put on his resurrection and 30 more years of his writing, do you think humanity as a whole would reach that for him?

>If music be the food of love, play on
Wait, why does Shakespeare write like a nigger?

Is there a /lit/ approved collection of Shakespeare's works and if so which is it?

Why was he such an English chud when depicting foreign nationalities?

I can hardly understand Shakespeare and I can't enjoy it at all. I tried reading Hamlet and Macbeth but it was really hard to follow and I got bored. Am I a retard?

anon

>racism
>sexism
>monarchism

Name a bigger chuddie than Shakespeare.

How did he do it? In fact, how does anyone do it? How do you go about writing a whole play or epic while simultaneously keeping your meter constant all throughout? Did he take months or years to write a single play? I'd like to be a playwright but things like blankverse and similar seem to be to tedious to deal with.

>Can't find a word to properly express what he wants to say
>Makes one up
And people call that "genius".

Is there another word for "drama" or "plays" for when people ask why I read Shakespeare, I don't saying "I like drama", "I like plays", I want to say something more masculine

Do you think your writing matters?

Why is it a cardinal sin to admit the fact that Shakespearean English is only barely comprehensible to modern English speakers? At what point can we speak of Shakespeare English translations as we do of Goethe or Cervantes?

or your favourite "falling in love" scenes from Shakespeare

>yeah fuck it, we'll just end it by killing all the characters with poison again. im fresh out of fucking ideas

How should a brainlet like myself read Shakespeare? No Fear Shakespeare? Annotated Shakespeare by Rowse? Arden?