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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Yes, Shakespeare an excellent example. The writing is so bad that hundreds of years ago his work was abandoned except among a tiny few arcane academics.  |
Shakespeare's "writing" is to be read aloud and acted upon! He was not a novelist.
OTOH, you can hardly find much better English poetry writing than in his sonnets, which are truthfully top-notch and make much good use of the language as art.