This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
The writer studies literature, not the world.
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.