Is it just me or is Shakespeare overrated?

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answer:Well, you don’t need to worry because he won’t be writing anything new. Any time a person is as prolific as Shakespeare – we’re talking dozens of plays, a ton of poems and sonnets, and so on – not everything is going to be to everyone’s liking. That’s just common sense. But on the whole, he wrote about basic human emotions and situations that are eternal in the sense that they have always existed and will continue to exist. Just for three examples: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. Could others have written similar drama? Sure. But they didn’t. What ruined Shakespeare for me (for a while) was how it was taught in school. Rather than teaching the “message” and the beauty of the story, my English teachers used to go for the detailed explicatory crap and foreshadowing – all the stuff that takes the enjoyment out of the plays because it analyzes it to death. So perhaps it is how Shakespeare is being presented to you that is the problem. But again, no one liked EVERYTHING that the guy wrote.

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