Opinion on Shakespeare

what do you think of him? What is your favorite from him?

I'll start. I think he is overated and his writing english is primitive. People look too into his literature too deep.

What opinion is there to have? He's quite simply one of the greatest playwrights who ever lived.

Romeo and Juliet isn't that great, though. Still good, but King Lear and Julius Caesar are infinitely better.

I think his righting is like Charles Dickens in that the original is good, but it is the potential for future spin-offs that make it great.

For example: Romeo X Juliet anime FTW!.

Hamlet is surely the frontrunner for "Best play in the English Language". Macbeth, Othello, Julius Ceasar et cetera deserve almost as much praise. Early stuff is dodgy (Titus Andronicus, anyone?), as are the comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream is good, the rest are a bit iffy).

Hes cool.

Hamlet is surely the frontrunner for "Best play in the English Language". Macbeth, Othello, Julius Ceasar et cetera deserve almost as much praise. Early stuff is dodgy (Titus Andronicus, anyone?), as are the comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream is good, the rest are a bit iffy).

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What opinion is there to have? He's quite simply one of the greatest playwrights who ever lived.

Romeo and Juliet isn't that great, though. Still good, but King Lear and Julius Caesar are infinitely better.

PannicAtack

I have to agree on Romeo and Juliet. I'm not as moved by it as I feel I should be. It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, just perhaps a touch lacklustre by Shakespeare standards.

his writing english is primitive. People look too into his literature too deep.mayforcebeyou

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Hamlet is surely the frontrunner for "Best play in the English Language". Macbeth, Othello, Julius Ceasar et cetera deserve almost as much praise. Early stuff is dodgy (Titus Andronicus, anyone?), as are the comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream is good, the rest are a bit iffy).

PannicAtack

I'd probably have included Twelfth Night with Midsummer Night's Dream had I thought of it. It's certainly one of the better comedies.

He was a good writer, but his plays themselves were boring and simplistic. All in all he's pretty overrated IMHO.

Maybe I just don't get to go too good theater too often, but it seems like whenever I watch one of his plays it seems really bad.

As far as reading I have to agree it's not something that's suppose to be read.

I do like the stories, and a few parts, but it seems like the production doesn't really translate well into our modern media age. About the best thing I've seen w/ shakespear is the 90's Romeo + Juliet movie w/ clare danes. Sadly as much as I want to fight it I just can't help but like that movie.

Also I don't think anybody can really enjoy Romeo and Juliet we see so many butchered copies of it everywhere that it's hard to see it w/ fresh eyes.

Personally I like Hamlet... you know it's good writing when everybody manages to die at the end.

I really enjoy it. Though a few stories are kind of odd. I'm abotu half way through his complete works.

Very easily one of the best English writers.

I'm a fan of Henry the IV part 1, King Lear, and Titus Andronicus. His tragedies and histories are more my speed than the comedies and sonnets, but enjoyable nonetheless. I took a few semesters of his work in college, and still years later catch productions of his work at the Shakespeare theatre in DC and Shakespeare in the Park in NYC.

Boring. He may have been great in his own time, but these days the guy's works just can't keep my attention

I'd like to sound intellectual and say I enjoy reading Shakespeare, but the truth is I don't. In fact I remember hating Macbeth.

I like Shakespeare, its kinda interesting that it only takes us like one line to say something, for example that the sun is rising, but in Shakespeare it takes like a whole paragraph. :P Right now I am reading Hamlet.