dahawwl Texas
07/04/13 6:09 am
Age, income, state, sex all seem to have about the same percentage. The only big difference is Rep vs Dem...I wonder why that is?
whyimrite
07/04/13 1:17 am
he's overrated if you don't know what is happening in the stories and think the message is what the teachers tell you in school
qwerty13
07/03/13 4:27 pm
For those of you that say overrated, I would like to see you write plays using almost entirely iambic pentameter.
BadUsername
07/03/13 12:31 pm
He actually didn't even write all the stories that say he's the author, he just took credit for them. *cough* *cough* overrated...
bigevs44 Washington
07/03/13 12:20 pm
Answered yes just on his contributions to English alone. Say what you want about his stories (which I thought were usually great), he's an important guy!
kida
07/03/13 9:52 am
The more appropriate question would be 'who actually read Shakespeare?' I'm assuming that most of the 'no' votes are coming from people who didn't enjoy reading R&J in high school and never bothered to read any of his other, greater works
pweeks33
07/03/13 9:22 am
Although Romeo and Juliet is a staple of high school English, I would urge anyone who said 'overrated' to read or see a production of one of his truly masterful works. Most scholars cite Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Richard III as his best works.
Michael Updating...
07/03/13 9:18 am
I initially voted overrated, then remembered the insane amount of contributions he made. The man invented over 1700 words.. Many of which we still use. Invincible, impartial, tranquil, gnarled, obscene, amazement. All Shakespeare.
sneuby Philadelphia
07/03/13 6:51 am
You can call him overrated when you can write in sonnets and invent your own language and create THE universal themes that practically every story is based on...
logophile Florida
07/03/13 6:23 am
People say that Shakespeare is cliche and overrated but what they don't realize is that he IS the original. Many, many works of literature are based on his themes. It's the works that are more modern and contain HIS themes that we should call cliche.
mac Oregon
07/03/13 5:53 am
Bill only sets the bar and creates the foundation of all literature and theater in the Western Hemisphere, if not influencing all writings in the world since. How could anyone say overrated? Wow peeps, Comp 101, Lit 101, World History 101?
princesslaura
07/03/13 1:50 am
I thought Romeo and Juliet was overrated but once you think about it and see that the story is about young love and not true love and how well he was able to write teenagers you can enjoy it more
Gunfighter
07/02/13 11:05 pm
He stole most of his works from earlier writers, and none of his stories are particularly remarkable. They also have no literal or allegorical relevance to modern society.
raccoon1 SoCal
07/02/13 9:51 pm
Charles and Mary Lamb have a book retelling all the stories. They used to tell them to the people who could not afford a ticket to the plays! Great book to get all the plots in understandable terms!
Statek Im from the Internet
07/02/13 9:23 pm
Just saying, Shakespeare may not have even been the William Shakespeare from Stratford upon Avon
There's actually a ton of evidence for it being someone else
So this question would include the works attributed to "Shakespeare"
SugarShaq
07/02/13 8:58 pm
If you say overrated, don't use any of the following expressions:
It's Greek to me/Forever and a day/We have seen better days/My minds eye/Off with his head/Love is blind/What is in a name/He eats me out of house and home /I won't budge an inch
katbug32899 okie country
07/02/13 8:49 pm
shall I compare thee to a summers day? thou art more lovely and more temperate. rough winds do shake the darling buds of may, and summers lease hath all too short a date. sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complextion dimmed.... that's all I have memorized.
azpride Arizona
07/02/13 8:46 pm
His words can have so many other meaning besides what is just written on the paper and it is beautifully written. An excellent high school English teacher spending weeks on one play has made me a true fan. It was my favorite semester of high school by far.
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