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Stick Insect posted:If you actually want to try reading, get one of those "The Oxford Shakespeare" editions. Half the book is analysis, I skipped that. But the other half is the text of the play with 50% footnotes explaining the meaning of various words. I found that pretty helpful. This. I've found it also helpful to read a lot of English literature. A lot. Go read Middle English, come back to Shakespeare and admire the clarity of his writing. Reading the plays is good if you want to savour every line and think about poetry and other stuff for literary weirdos, and seeing them is good if you want to have fun.
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If you're talking about Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human, yeah, Bloom gets caught in the hyperbole instead of properly demonstrating his thesis: that Shakespeare is the first true artist of characters. I think that it's with Shakespeare that we start to consistently find interesting characters as opposed to interesting character types. Take Marlowe, Jonson, Kyd, Ovid whoever - they just don't compare to Shakespeare when it comes to characters. I can name only one character from Tamerlane. A couple from Volpone.
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May 18, 2015 23:26
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After 400 years, your noble dust is no doubt stopping a bung-hole 
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Apr 23, 2016 17:16
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More of your conversation would infect my brain.
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Shakespeare is a not of an age but for all timeHermia in Midsummer Night's Dream posted:Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.
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Jun 18, 2016 21:00
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Of course, the boring ones 
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