Provided that Shakespeare did indeed write the plays attributed to him.
2007-12-01 15:51:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Shakespeare, even though I don't enjoy reading his work.
2007-12-01 15:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Shakespeare
2007-12-05 11:23:32 · answer #2 · answered by I think I'm Dumb ~Amy~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
--Being that Shakespeare got many ideas and was influenced by the Bible writers!
--I would say that he felt that the Bible biographers were themselves superior to him as writers:
*** w77 5/15 p. 292 A Book of Matchless Impact ***
English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare got much of the inspiration for his works from the Bible. It has been said that “no writer has assimilated the thoughts and reproduced the words of Holy Scripture more copiously than Shakespeare.......
OTHERS who had great respect for the Bible & its writers:
.....American humorist and editor Thomas L. Masson said of the Bible’s impact on literature: “It is the bedrock foundation of all our literature and, therefore, if you want to know anything, the Bible is where you must find it. . . . It is too big for systems, it comprehends man himself and all his thoughts. It is, in reality, a great gallery of superb human portraits.”......
......The impact that the Bible has had on learning and literature staggers the imagination. Take the English-speaking world, which includes some 358 million people. Writes John R. Green, in A Short History of the English People: “The whole prose literature of England, save the forgotten tracts of Wyclif, has grown up since the translation of the Scriptures by Tyndale and Coverdale. So far as the nation at large was concerned, no history, no romance, hardly any poetry, save the little-known verse of Chaucer, existed in the English tongue when the Bible was ordered to be set up in churches.”
2007-12-02 00:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by thomas_tutoring2002 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no written work better than The Holy Bible..
Shakespeare may have or may not have been responsible
for the works of Shakespeare and I really don't care either
way, but I know in my heart The Holy Bible is the Inspired
Word of God. Also,the Holy Bible is the best selling Book
of All time for All Times to Come!
2007-12-02 00:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare
2007-12-01 23:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by Darth Nihilus 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Shakespeare of course
the bible is an useless piece of paper, the most boring stories ever
I would rather to read a comic book and not the bible
2007-12-02 00:09:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of the apocryphal books are pretty good, but Shakespeare based most of his plays on Greek mythological works. Now the Canterbury Tales. That's a challenge.
2007-12-01 23:55:02 · answer #7 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would have to say the bible writers. Shakespeare never got a (literally) religious following of millions of people world-wide.
2007-12-01 23:54:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Shakespeare has been entertaining millions for the last couple of centuries. People walk into his plays and watch the movie adaptations knowing fully well that they are watching a work of fiction.
Fueding over God has killed millions of people over thousands of years. Somehow, the distinction between fact and fiction just doesn't get made by very many people.
I'll cast my vote for Will.
2007-12-01 23:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Shakespeare, fo course. The plays are much better organized, the plots are reasonable and the language is much more inventive.
2007-12-01 23:55:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋