04-12-2004, 12:28 PM
Oh dear 
Batz, I have no problem with you disliking Shakespeare. However, you didn't say that. You said he wrote "junk" and that Romeo and Juliet was "retarded". I took issue with that because it smacks of ignorance to disparage something of which you have no appreciation and, so it seems, do not understand. If it is your opinion it is a poorly formed one.
You say you have read Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. However, it seems you have failed to realise (or have not been taught) that Shakespeare wrote his plays in blank verse, which means that it is not supposed to rhyme.
As for the invented words? There's too many to list. There's more than a thousand attributed to Shakespeare who either created them or altered their meaning. These words include "amazement", "assassination", "advertising", "unreal" and "eventful" and phrases such as "the dogs of war", "brevity is the soul of wit", "brave new world", "milk of human kindness" and "rhyme nor reason".
From what you have written it seems you don't like reading much at all(Poe is an inspiration yet you haven't read more than a few lines? Please read his stories or at least The Raven). That's hardly the best stance from which to criticise Shakespeare or any writer for that matter.
Batz, I have no problem with you disliking Shakespeare. However, you didn't say that. You said he wrote "junk" and that Romeo and Juliet was "retarded". I took issue with that because it smacks of ignorance to disparage something of which you have no appreciation and, so it seems, do not understand. If it is your opinion it is a poorly formed one.
You say you have read Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. However, it seems you have failed to realise (or have not been taught) that Shakespeare wrote his plays in blank verse, which means that it is not supposed to rhyme.
As for the invented words? There's too many to list. There's more than a thousand attributed to Shakespeare who either created them or altered their meaning. These words include "amazement", "assassination", "advertising", "unreal" and "eventful" and phrases such as "the dogs of war", "brevity is the soul of wit", "brave new world", "milk of human kindness" and "rhyme nor reason".
From what you have written it seems you don't like reading much at all(Poe is an inspiration yet you haven't read more than a few lines? Please read his stories or at least The Raven). That's hardly the best stance from which to criticise Shakespeare or any writer for that matter.