I knew from early on that Shakespeare took pre-existing plots and just tweaked them (certainly defensible if he improves them). And Twelfth Night is him getting the twins/mistaken-identity plot right, but so often he does it poorly (admittedly my feelings on this are colored by the fact that I don't like this plot device). As a 9th grader I loved some of the language in Romeo & Juliet even though the plot itself made me rageful. I don't particularly dislike Shakespeare, but I don't have any special love for him either. But then, I'm a Bad English Major who only half-jokingly says she doesn't like anything.
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Date: 2006-04-05 01:31 pm (UTC)