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Originally posted by pinkgoth2
By the way, does anyone else on the board think Shakespeare 0wnz? (or have you all been brainwashed by your school and kid logic saying "school is boring, thus anything being taught in school has to be boring")
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I'm assuming "0wnz" means "is good in some way"...
I generally find most of what I am taught at school interesting, but I have to take exception to Shakespeare - I simply can't see what people see in him. Why do we have to admire somebody just because he totally slaughtered the English language? If he couldn't find a word that fitted in the sentence, he just made one up! ("The multitudinous seas incarnadine") His plays were specifically tailored so that the majority of the people who came to see them would not understand the dialogue - the only reason people these days understand it is that his words have
become part of the language through intense study... He didn't even make up any decent plots - most of his plays were just adaptations of existing stories or historical events! What's more, he practically invented the cliché, and restrained Theatre into the same set of basic plotlines for centuries. What an arsehole.
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