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Well, Shakespeare's audience would never have even seen a Jew much less known one personally. The vast majority of the Jewish population was expelled from England before Shakespeare's plays took the...

Lately Wordsworth and Coleridge

Feste for his wit

Caliban

Shakespeare's aim was always to entertain, in tragedy, comedy, history, and romance; it was the way he made his living. If he hadn't entertained his audience day in and out he would have been out of...

Perhaps, but I doubt his life was very interesting. He lived in Wisconsin.

Christopher Marlowe was purported to be an interesting guy.

Good topic, I'll include my favorite character from each play as well.

The Tempest - This play is amazingly modern, to me, it feels like it was written last week. Prospero.
Twelfth Night - Feste...

It would seem a strange dream, but I would pass on early 20th century Russia.

The Great Gatsby - It seemed an optimistic time.

Star Wars - Gimme a light sabre

Le Morte de Arthur

The Hawkmoon series by Moorcock would make a visually stunning movie.

You might want to look at Measure for Measure for some very obvious references to the bible, as well as some interesting questions the play poses in relation to some biblical principles

One of the underrated points of argument for the man from Avon being the true Willy is the amount of detailed folklore and agricultural references that are found in nearly every play. The plays also...

Isn't individual perspective an amazing thing. Twelfth Night is my favorite play of his Ive read. Hamlet is not one of my favorite plays though it's still excellent.

"A group of drunken...

You say racist, I say he was, "diversity intolerant."

Edit: The above was a deliberate politically correct untruth - HPL was quite racist.



Favorite in that list is Call of Cthulhu but...

Canto 1 from Purgatorio

"Who are you that up the blind river have fled
the eternal prison?

Who has guided you, or what has been your
lantern, coming forth from the deep night that
makes the...

One needs to be able to think critically to gain meaning from some of these so called "elitist" works, and thinking critically seems to be on the wane these days.

In the future everyone will have their own reality television show and nobody will be watching yours except you.

Dante's Purgatorio

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Nancy

named Nancy. For those inclined, please pray she gains the strength of will to live and strength of body she will need in the coming days.

Thank you

Yeats, Eliot and Faulkner

If Russian literature ended with Dostoevskii and Tolstoy (except for Pushkin which is brilliant) I would probably despise it, but it doesn't.

In the interest of balance here are some links that...

Stories based on the Ur myth (the hero's journey) will always enchant kids and a lot of adults as well.

Ill nominate Ayn Rand. Ill let you teach me, illuminate me, whatever, but you better entertain me.

There is only one true interpretation of any text - Mine. The rest is heresy.

The sky-gods Thor, Marduk, Ukko, Zeus etc. are in charge now, there's no going back.