Posted on 03/16/2010 12:25:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It is not that I hate Shakespeare, I enjoyed Macbeth and Hamlet a lot, and I ejoyed Romeo and Juliet as well. I however do not understand how he is held to be one of the greatest of all time.
It's what a writer does with the story -- how he tells or shows it -- that makes for greatness. The source material for some of Shakespeare's plays was pretty minimal -- certainly in comparison with what Shakespeare created out of it.
I wonder who really wrote your post.
It was just a boring story where very little happened. You could not like any of the characters (which I know was the point) and it seemed like you were reading about someones boring life.
I know what you mean. His most often produced plays are just a string of famous quotations.
You have to READ it to figure out the draw.
;-)
“I really do not see why people are so in love with Shakespeare (if he eve wrote all his plays) Most of his works were based on earlier plays or stoies.”
God made man, but when Michelango PAINTED him...well!
Authors in those days generally did not do all original work. If they did it would have then been disregarded as of no value.
Art was in reworking already known themes and incidents with one’s own insights and techniques.
The theory runs along the lines that it is entirely improbable that someone could have been such a genius as to write what Shakespeare wrote, so, it could not have been Shakespeare, but some other genius. Or, in the alternative, they pose the even more improbable hypothesis, that the only way to to explain the conundrum of one such improbable genius having lived is to posit that there were two such geniuses.
Some genius wrote Shakespeare, and for the sake of convenience we might as well call that author what he called himself, i.e. Shakespeare.
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