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> something as trivial as Shakespeare Please tell me you are being ironic? I’m no particular fan of Shakespeare, but to call his work trivial and to ignore the
by voisin 4y ago
> something as trivial as Shakespeare
Please tell me you are being ironic? I’m no particular fan of Shakespeare, but to call his work trivial and to ignore the impact he had on western culture is… short sighted at best.
- thrown_22 4y agoAt the time Shakespeare wrote there were maybe half a million literate people who spoke English. Today there are more literate people who speak English in Fort Worth, Texas. The only reason to think Shakespeare is anything but a middling writer of the winning English dialect is cultural snobbery.