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Where do I start with him?
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Where do I start with him?
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>>8141375
anywhere
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>>8141375
Romeo & Juliet > Hamlet > Macbeth > Othello
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>>8141375
Troilus and Cressida, obviously.

His best comedy by far. He is practically trolling the classical hero by reversing the characters. Akhilleus is a bastard. Hektor is chasing a fool night that makes fun of him. And as a bonus conversation topic, you can argue that by the slow reveal of the female character, it may have been written for female actor.
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>>8141489
Hektor is chasing a fool knight!

>i blame wine
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>>8141396
This
Don't forget the sonnets
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>>8141489
Plus there's Thersites
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Never forget the sonnets!
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>>8141672
they're pretty gay, tho

then when they're not gay, it's about him liking brown girls

I'LL STICK WITH PETRARCH, THANK YEW
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>>8141375
The tragedies, I'd say. Then move on to the comedies and maybe the histories if you can still handle more.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

ANNOTATED
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Start with the new emoji versions of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. The original English is outdated.
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>>8142051
>A Midsummer Night's Dream
tfw a society is so retarded that they actually enjoy seeing plays about fictional ordinary people sucking up to fictional kings and queens

boring piece of shit minus the parts with Bottom, and maybe even then
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>>8142020
>it's about him liking brown girls
a true patrician
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>>8141396
>Macbeth
>Not the objective best
>mfw
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>>8142191
That's a really poor way to read that play.
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>>8142841
mah nigga
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Wez wus Shakespeare an shieeett
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King Lear is his masterpiece
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>>8145459
thats not how u spell Henry IV Part 1
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Buy an edition of his complete works (Norton or the like).
Read everything (plays and sonnets).
Masturbate furiously.
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>>8141489

Plus, Ulysses is one of his high-tier master of puppets.

Ideally, read Romeo and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida in extension of each other.
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