>memespeare

fucking anglos i swear

yeah def dont start with the people that shakespeare borrowed all the ideas for his plays from

>>7645551
Shakespeare got (stole really) all of his plays from French playwrights and poems. He probably couldn't even read Greek or Latin.

>>7645559

yeah haha, i mean imagine thinking comedy of errors was basically a rehash of menaechmi lmao, definitely stolen from a french dude instead

though tbf if anything he stole more from roman and more contemporary italian (of the previous century) writers and the likes of chaucer

but greek and roman influences are still generally there throughout if not always direct

>What is philosophy?

>>7645559
He could definitely read Latin. There are too many Latin phrases and references to Ovid for him not to have been able to speak Latin.

>>7645551
>>7645559
>>7645604

>2016
>Not borrowing ideas

Jesus, it's like you guys want to be amateur forever.

>>7645559
>>7645618
he knew "little latin and less greek"

anyway most of his shit was from stuff like the historia of brittain and saxo grammaticus.

Start with Linear A.

But, my friend, Shakespeare, too, started with the Greeks!

>>7645559

>stole

lol

>>7645559
and they got theirs from the greeks

>>7645618
someone else in his troupe could have helped him out.

>>7645559
there's nothing new under the sun

>>7645559
do you have a source on this? I want to read about the french playwrights