Why do people still like shakespeare?

Answer 1

Because it truly is well written and if you take the time to understand it it really is very funny. It's not just something most people can pick up and really enjoy without trying though. Because you aren't used to hearing people speak like that you have to become very familiar with it or work at it.

Answer 2

It's some of the best literature ever created. Once you get past the language and begin to understand what it's all about, you'll find there's very little that compares to it.
Shakespeare was a master at describing the human soul and the conflicts that lie therein. The things he speaks about are timeless. As long as humans exist, works such as those of Shakespeare will have meaning.
That's also why it's a classic.

Answer 3

Even though he writes in Elizabethan English, he manages to capture some of the truth of humanity.... the cruelty, the deceit, the triumups, the defeats, and all the rest. Get in the right frame of mind and The Merchant of Venice is just as relevant today as it was in Shakespeare's day. Racism, people using religion to further their own points of view, etc. Just because it isn't easily digestible doesn't mean it isn't good. It's an aquired taste

Answer 4

Because we get to see people wear ridiculous outfits in those plays.

Also, it's a blast to find that Shakespeare was the last writer to actually have an original thought. (That's not an insult to contemporary writers, btw. It's a compliment, rather, to Shakespeare.)

Answer 5

In my opinion Shakespeare is over-rated. I think people still claim to love him because they are conditioned to do so. It' s the same thing as our museums being loaded wiyh paintings hundreds of years old-- most of the stuff(although alot of it is great) should be warehoused. Shakespeare also still permeates the inside walls of our classrooms and institutions-- and weighs heavy on the tongues of professors; how can anybody ever really let him go? I think there are more contemparary writings that now deserve recognition,but Shakespeare-- thank you for your contribution.

Answer 6

Because he still speaks to the human condition. There are still star crossed lovers, there are still mix-ups and complications, people still fight, and love, and hate. Shakespeare speaks to the common man and that's why his work has endured.

Answer 7

Even though he wrote his plays and sonnets some 400 years ago, we can understand his works with great characters, tragic/comic plots, and revelations of human flaws as well as integrity. One of his great literary contributions is his apt, understandable and thought-provoking quotes here and there, for example,

1. Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good-night till it be morrow. (Romeo and Juliet)
2. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night)
3.Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date. (Sonnet, 18)
4. Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once. (Hamlet)
5. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players. (As You Like It)
etc.

Just think and imagine, there're innumerably more, he's a genius of the English language and the world.

Answer 8

Perhaps it is a combination of many things. His use of language, albeit archaic, was extroardinary and he was a master of inuendo and metaphore.

Add to that a rather interesting take on life as it was and a keen wit all bundled up in an exquisite plot line. He is as bright and fresh today as he was in his own time.

Answer 9

Let's see. Well, he only wrote some of the best literature in the entire history of the world!

Answer 10

His stories still relate to life, even though we may have trouble processing what he says, and things have changed, the human nature is still the same, and that's what he wrote about.