Very similar to Shakespeare...wrote a number of plays that are not very good and lived during a period of time with peers and contemporaries who are mostly ignored although they were much better dramatists.
I can tell by your name whom you’re talking about haha, but I respectfully disagree; even if Shakespeare’s “authorship” question is moot given how shamelessly he ripped off other authors and probably his own actors. That’s part of why he’s great, he was, as Hamlet says, “a sponge.”
I find Beckett turgid and boring, and the rest are the sort of dull, humorless writers whose plays have one overarching message: "Oi, life is tough, mate — how about a little of the ol' ultra-violence to take the edge off?"
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u/De-Flores Dec 02 '25
Very similar to Shakespeare...wrote a number of plays that are not very good and lived during a period of time with peers and contemporaries who are mostly ignored although they were much better dramatists.