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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 5, 2020 14:39:13 GMT
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Post by louise on Jan 5, 2020 14:41:44 GMT
I voted for Shakespeare because I have enjoyed many of his plays at the theatre, but I've never managed to read Don Quixote.
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Post by darknessfish on Jan 6, 2020 10:15:53 GMT
It's a strange comparison, isn't it, other than because of the era? Shakespeare's output is innumerable (err... I can't be arsed looking up how many plays he wrote), whereas all we have from Cervantes to the best of my knowledge (yeah, can't be arsed looking that up, either) are the two books of Quixote. In any event, I dislike canonisation in all art-forms, it seems nothing more than a concept to reduce thought, reduce debate, and impose objective values on subjective works. My experience of Shakespeare is entirely through reading Twelfth Night at school, which I thought was a shockingly overwrought pantomime and completely put me off venturing further into his literature. And while Don Quixote is enjoyable, there's a significant gulf in quality between books 1 and 2, to the extent that I couldn't state that he had any kind of consistent greatness, even within the same novel.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 7, 2020 17:26:18 GMT
It's a strange comparison, isn't it, other than because of the era? Shakespeare's output is innumerable (err... I can't be arsed looking up how many plays he wrote), whereas all we have from Cervantes to the best of my knowledge (yeah, can't be arsed looking that up, either) are the two books of Quixote. In any event, I dislike canonisation in all art-forms, it seems nothing more than a concept to reduce thought, reduce debate, and impose objective values on subjective works. My experience of Shakespeare is entirely through reading Twelfth Night at school, which I thought was a shockingly overwrought pantomime and completely put me off venturing further into his literature. And while Don Quixote is enjoyable, there's a significant gulf in quality between books 1 and 2, to the extent that I couldn't state that he had any kind of consistent greatness, even within the same novel. good point about Don Quixote & the quality of the two books! yeah, almost like 2 different novels.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 8, 2020 17:44:22 GMT
I voted for Shakespeare because I have enjoyed many of his plays at the theatre, but I've never managed to read Don Quixote. Same.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 9, 2020 0:09:44 GMT
I voted Cervantes.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 9, 2020 1:19:57 GMT
Apples and oranges.
Can't compare them any more than you can compare a wash basin to Mambrino's helmet.
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Post by Morgana on Jan 14, 2020 10:09:38 GMT
I voted Shakespeare because I've read a few of his plays and poems but I haven't read Don Quixote.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 14, 2020 11:40:12 GMT
Shakespeare
I have tried to read Don Quixote 3 times but i can never finish it.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jan 19, 2020 19:25:34 GMT
what's the best Shakespeare?
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 21, 2020 21:41:12 GMT
I read all of Don Quixote. I admire it and have learned more about Cervantes' life. But neither the author nor his works have consumed my life and attention like the Bard of Avon.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 24, 2020 0:15:04 GMT
what's the best Shakespeare? your mothers house kidding, but personally I love Coriolanus.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 24, 2020 3:54:16 GMT
what's the best Shakespeare? My favorite comedies are Much Ado About Nothing followed very closely by As You Like It. I love the English History plays which have an epic sweep that takes you all the way through the 85 years of the War Of The Roses. And then, of course, the Four Major Tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth. So many others contain great delights and memorable characters.
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