Why do continental Europeans not have their own Shakespeare?
Why do continental Europeans not have their own Shakespeare?
William Mitchell
Noah Jones
Who?
Sebastian White
ibsen > shakespeare
Elijah Cook
We have Camões, basically Shakespeare's Metal Gear Solid version
Sebastian Miller
Marulic> shakespeare
Ryan Barnes
we have like four of those in Italy alone
Brayden Long
Not really
Zachary Green
not a shot lad but nice try. Ibsen was good but there's a reason he's not Shakespeare.
Aaron Rogers
They have Lope de Vega, Racine, Goethe, the list could go on.
Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, and who else?
Jaxon Parker
Shakespear's irrelevant outside of english language.
Luis Perez
Moliere is way better THOUGH
Ethan Howard
funniest shit about Shakespeare being so popular is because we Germans simped for him so hard, we basically MADE him popular, you're welcome Brits
Brayden Taylor
>t. Has never read Moliere
Thomas Robinson
I don't think that's true user.
en.wikipedia.org
Jack Lee
take your pick lmao
it.wikiversity.org
And that's if we decide arbitrarely to limit ourselves to medieval writers.
If we pick a wider definition of internationally influencial writers that shaped their local language you'd probably have a list that's longer than Shakespear's collected writing lol
Benjamin Peterson
Have you not heard of the world famous Andrejs Pumpurs?
Hudson Roberts
shakespeare was black
Jaxon Ortiz
Shakespeare sported an earring in 17th century England...that's strange to hear
Jacob Rogers
yes, because he was italian
Lincoln Thomas
If you're unironically comparing Boccaccio to Shakespeare then you really have no idea about the literary merits and achievements of these respective writers. But I invite you to tell me how your Medieval Italian writers are on par with Shakespeare kek.
Joshua Turner
to see*
Isaiah Martinez
Dante>Shakespeare
Chase Edwards
We do
Tyler Kelly
The Bible was written in Greek.
Literally no one can compete.
Leo Green
That's just a list of well-known Italian writers; none of them but the three I mentioned have reputations that match Shakespeare's. I could easily post other great writers from the English Renaissance (Spenser, Milton, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, etc.), but I wouldn't say they match Dante's reputation.
Dominic Mitchell
strindberg > shakespeare
Ian Reed
Moliere fucking sucks buddy. He could've achieve 1/10 of what the Bard did with Hamlet.
Robert Myers
Boccaccio was good enough for Chaucer to copy
Ryan Phillips
This 100%. Eurofags are just listing talented people kek. Nobody doubts their technical abilities but the idea they ALL somehow match/exceed Shakespeare is ESL cope plain and simple.