What's Shakespeare's weak point?

Question

Did he ever write something that was utter tripe?

Answer 1

All's Well that End's Well is one of his worst plays.
The richness of the language is also a problem. Even at the time, no one could possibly have taken it all in. He often worries an idea to death, trying to explain it in many different ways, and then moves on when none of them is actually clear. He has a weakness for puns and wordplay, which is one of the sources of bathos in his works.
Most people thought this until the Romantic era. It was then that the the idea took root of Shakespeare as a universal genius who couldn't write a bad line.
But he wrote some great plays for all that.

Answer 2

Only a personal point of view, but a lot of his plots were weak as hell. They are as bad as something you'd find on Eastenders or Hollyoaks. Then again, you don't read Shakespeare for plot, you read it for his amazing mastery of the English language. This is why attempts to produce "modern" versions of Shakespeare by setting, say, Romeo and Juliet amongst a bunch of rappers in America are so useless - they take away the good stuff and leave the weak points exposed. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me on this one, however.

Answer 3

He wrote tonnes and tonnes of utter rubbish.

There is a play going around the traps called the "complete works of shakespear" where they do all his plays in short form, including the rubbish. If it is appearing local it is a good laugh and a good summary.

Shakespeares weak point was plot. For example Julius Ceasar lifts it's plot structure from a popular contemporary story of the time.

Because some of his lesser known plays have plots that would guarantee success in hollywood (meaning none) we can assume his better known plays were borrowed (read stolen) from other sources, some of which we are unaware of and some we are.

Answer 4

I think that Shakespeare's weak point was geography.In his times ,only people like sailors,etc had maps.
For example,He says that Othello was from moor, however ,on reading the story completely, we come to know that he actually imagined Othello to be a native African.
Frankly speaking, his books are inspired by many historical events such as wars,etc.However, he was a great author.

Answer 5

Maybe he did. Since his plays came to us from other people, maybe the tripe wasn't passed along.

Answer 6

hmmm......the stories he turned into plays were most of the time not original...sometimes they were traditional lovestories which he took up n named romeo juliet n dramatized it sometimes they were historical stories n events which he took up n named julius ceaser or henry 4th sometimes the traditional story of a rich man turn poor left by friends timon of athens etc but who cares abt that its enough that he gave what he gave 2 us n 2 literature.

Answer 7

Most of his work was Tripe.

Answer 8

his weak point was he was a plagarist, ask the playright bacon.

Answer 9

His fpelling

Answer 10

He didn't write it himself. It's all stolen!