It baffles me that some people hate Shakespeare just because it’s like:
“Villian, I hast done thy mother” will never get old
Don’t even get me started on how GAY Mercutio and Benvolio are
Or how GAY Hamlet and Horatio (Horatio deserves better tho)
Beatrice saying that men are dirt
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” – said Mercutio, on his deathbed
How GAY the Twelfth Night is
The hybrid comedy-tragedy that is Romeo and Juliet so we can laugh our asses off while these fools die
“What, you egg!” *stabs*
[Exits, pursued by a bear]
Hamlet the Angsty Emo Teen ™
Seriously Hamlet is the biggest Drama Queen in all of literature and that includes Sirius “Only one will die tonight” Black
Pretty much all of A Midsummer Nights Dream was legendary
THE DAD JOKES
Not to mention that The Lion King is Hamlet, West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet, and Heathers could’ve easily been based on Macbeth from what I can see
I ran into my deacon while running errands and she is one of the loveliest people ever to grace the planet and I was so excited to talk books and history with her and then she up and casually said she didn’t like Shakespeare and…
That kind of thing just hurts my soul. It makes me seriously reevaluate people sometimes. Conversely, I was so utterly and joyously surprised when I had a conversation with an older coworker who spat out one of the sonnets with little stumbling. Like I wanted to cry I was so delighted.