who can replace him
By JONESCITY
@JONESCITY (12)
Nigeria
3 responses
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
22 Jan 11
I don't think there can ever be another Shakespeare. It would have to take someone so extraoridinary. It seems like an impossible feat. shakespeare was a phenomenon of literature whose shoes would be very hard to fill.
@isabelwakeford (57)
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23 Jan 11
Dear Sender 621
I agree with you Sender. Sh. produce such a large body of work, pure poetry as well as plays, that he would be an impossibly hard act to follow, in regard to both quantity, as well as quality. . Ben Jonson thought he was Sh. equal at the time, but his plays have no universal appeal and are laboured in comparison to Sh.
The poetry of the sonnet-cycle encapsulates what it feels like to fall in love and love - both fulfilled and thwarted - is thematically dominant in his finest tragedies as well as his comedies. No other poet-playwright has mastered the art of invoking the sympathy and engagement of the audience as Sh. has done and his use of imagery, creation of nonce-words (one-off-words,like 'unkinged' coined to suit a specific sitation)and use of different metres, means that his language has a vitality that is recreated every time it is read, or acted. Long may he reign.
@CaseyMolyneux (46)
• Canada
1 Feb 11
Yes, absolutely. Pick an author.
By that I mean that Shakespeare is a historically significant writer because of his commercial success. With the exception of Hamlet, which I find very convoluted and intriguing, his works are just lame. It seems to me as if they're written almost entirely for plot with a large, simplistic audience in mind. He was like the Michael Bay of the Elizabethan era...that doesn't mean he was any good.
