I think it’s just a bunch of literature graduates who are creating this hype around Shakespeare and sort of circlejerking and making it like a big thing so that their useless degree somehow remains relevant
I think it’s just a bunch of literature graduates who are creating this hype around Shakespeare and sort of circlejerking and making it like a big thing so that their useless degree somehow remains relevant
I wouldn’t agree with it but it’s definitely an unpopular opinion :D
To some extent, it might be the case that he is a little overhyped - but I would argue any artist that is so popular, is in danger of being overhyped. I only read “Romeo and Juliet” and “Hamlet” from his work, and I can appreciate his workshop - it’s really good stuff that survived for many years and remained valid.
But to each their own - art is meant to serve you - if you don’t like it, move on and try something different. Definitely better way of going on about things rather than sticking to it, and pretending to like it in fear of being laughed at for a simple reason of sticking out of the crowd.
I look at most of the classical composers in the same way. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and the like have reason that they’ve been studied and reinterpretdd for as long as they have. Modern popularity doesn’t have the persistance of time to judge against. As much as I might like the guys and their influence on modern music I can’t imagine anyone will be studying the works of Ozzy Osbourne or Kurt Cobain 400 years from now.
Kurt Cobain I’m not sure, but the likes of Giorgio Moroder or Led Zeppelin definitely pioneered and excelled in their field and have as chance of joining the canon of “forever” remembered legends. We have to remember that in the times of William Shakespeare there were many successful writers, or in Beethoven times - remarkable composers. Only the pioneers and persons of interests made it to modern general consciousness.