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Your opinion.

>> No.6941910

It's good, Shakespeare needs modernization etc etc etc

>> No.6941918

Really good stuff, I have the whole collection. Good to see Shakespeare modernized a bit

>> No.6941922

>>6941902

So this what it feels to be so old that you actually start hating the younger generations.

>> No.6941926

>>6941922
I can't imagine that book sold enough to make a profit.

>> No.6941929

Saving literature tbh.

>>6941922
No need to lie.

>> No.6941931

>>6941902
I'm envious of all the shekels that person banked for an extended 9gag post.

>> No.6941934

>>6941922
hate the game, not the player

>> No.6941935

If he gets translated into German and French, why translate him into Standard English, too? Same goes to Burns.

>> No.6941940

>>6941926
Consider the publicity it good.

>> No.6941941

>>6941926

Really?

...maybe I need to start considering to form pitch for a book that retells a famous public domain story with Whatsup, facebook, twitter and instagram updates.

>> No.6941961

>>6941940
It's not like teenage retards care about Romeo and Juliet to begin with, why would they suddenly care about it simply because it's written in messages? I don't know, maybe I'm underestimating how willing they are to throw money in the trash.

>>6941941
The lazier the better.

>> No.6941970

>>6941961

It's like when it was hip to translate shit to slang for fifteen seconds like a decade back. People think it will get young people to read, but it's just a fad.

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>>6941902

>> No.6942208

Here's what reddit things of it
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/39lvjn/this_literary_atrocity/?sort=top

Basically, as long as it gets kids into reading it's awesome, and you are all loser English majors who should be making my coffee :^)

>> No.6942348

>>6942208
We had this discussion before. /lit/ largely agreed (for reasons) that "just bring the kids to read" is worthless.

Does anyone have screencaps of one of those discussions?

>> No.6942356

>>6941902
My opinion is that you should stop posting this shit every single day, faggot.

>> No.6942360
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>>6942185
>peeny
>I'm slickling his peeny

>> No.6942384

>>6942348
>>6942208
hey man I've gotta say the Great Illustrated Classics with like Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer did help me read as a kid. I went straight through those books when I was 10 and moved on to the full versions years later.

Maybe the emoji is over the top but you cannot argue that simplification is bad for these books
ok I mean you can (for adults) but for kids you cannot argue it

>> No.6942403

>>6941902
Disgusting.

>> No.6942419

>>6942384
Simplification for children is fine. Retardization for teenagers is not.

>> No.6942420

Trash.

>> No.6942425

>>6941902
way to gimmicky

>> No.6942426

>>6941902
fun

>> No.6942447

>>6941934
Fuck the player. The player perpetuates the game.

>> No.6942450

>>6941902
Retarded. This is what adults actually believe. No teen wants to read that shit.

>> No.6942458

I don't have an opinon on it. It doesn't effect me in any way. some people might enjoy it. others wont

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>>6942450
>mfw imagining the person who had to create that fucking abomination

>> No.6942460

>>6942384
I agree with >>6942419 on this. Adapting Shakespeare--putting him in a modern setting, attempting to translate him into a vernacular--is all fine. The thing in OP's pic is nothing but pure effacement of any value his work has (prose, poetry, plot details, psychological insight, famous phrases/lines, etc). 'Emoji lingo' is not a dialect, nor does the 'translator' make any attempt to keep the nuances of the text.
It's the exact type of thing that leads people to write
>Im curious as to why Shakespeare is still heavily taught in schools. It's not really relevant

For 'getting kids into Shakespeare', give em' their easier writings like Hilaire Belloc and whatnot.

>> No.6942589

>>6942419
>Simplification for children is fine. Retardization for teenagers is not.
There we go. Seconded.

>> No.6944721

>>6942208

You know what else gets kids into reading? Good books with their original words and not made for the retarded texting generation of retards that type like "hey what's up nm u???" shit that I see.

Who gives a fuck what Reddit thinks anyway? This shit is garbage.

>> No.6944829

I'd rather people not read at all than read mindless drivel.

>> No.6944838

>>6941902
I don't really care tbh
Romeo and Juliet isn't a good Shakespeare play anyway

>> No.6944859

>>6942419
>Simplification for children is fine
No, it's not. We've managed it for 400 years, and there's no evidence to suggest that today's children are biologically retarded.

>> No.6944869

>>6941902

This is actually harder to read than a common english translation, such as sparknotes "no fear shakespeare"

>> No.6944873

>>6941902
It's really not a big deal. The only people that will buy these are people like /lit/ who will buy them ironically and make fun of them.

Kids that are actually interested in Shakespeare will just get an actual edition, and kids that need to know Shakespeare for class and don't want to read it will just use Sparknotes.