Is he overrated?

Is he overrated?

It's not possible to overrate the Creator of us all.

By Harold Bloom? Yes.
By Veeky Forums? No.

No. Have you read Hamlet?

God no

>By Harold Bloom? Yes.

This should speak for itself.

>TFW they take A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest out of high school curriculum because of its content, but continue teaching shit fest std and sexually confusion fueled garbage.

Lear > Hamlet

>tfw you remember John Green is required reading in some schools

>t. list of objectively wrong opinions

Lear > Hamlet

Hamlet's only been considered supremely popular in our own century. Before then it was Lear. Opinions change, stupid.

As a playwright? Yes. As a poet, no. No one has written better poetics than he has.

Is there anything more rewarding to read than shakespeare?

No.

Been reading Hamlet the last 2 days and I am just blown away. Absolutely blown away.

He is the Wayne Gretzky of Literature. There are other incredible, great authors, but no one can touch Shakespeare.

if anything he's underrated

He's no no Audre Lorde.

he's quite polished but he can never match the raw nigger-vitality of Marlowe

No other writer has contributed more to the English language, so: no, the hype is real.

However, most of his plots (emphasis on PLOT) are found in Ovid, so make sure to read your Greeks..

So why is this passage so famous?

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

kek'd

Definitely.

I think it inspired Faukner to write The Sound and The Fury.

>Ovid
>Greeks

C'mon man

Because it's a great passage.

so fucking good

By high school English teachers? Yes

By wider society? No.

Romeo and Juliet specifically is overrated as shit.

>Hamlet's only been considered supremely popular in our own century. Before then it was Lear. Opinions change, stupid.

Yeah and we're right and they were wrong

Absolutely not. No one since has matched him. Which is pretty pathetic.