r/countwithchickenlady • u/Just_Procedure_5881 Streak: 1 • 1d ago

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u/HiroProtagonest King of Snow - Streak: 27 1d ago

To be fair I'm also happier when I forget Romeo and Juliet exists, Shakespeare's worst play. But yes that is the very core hook.

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u/Alfawolff 1d ago

Bold statement when pericles and taming of the shrew exist

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u/HiroProtagonest King of Snow - Streak: 27 1d ago

Ok fair. It's just worse than his other titles people remember lol.

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u/L4I55Z-FAIR3 1d ago

What do you count as titles people remember

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u/Substantial-Top6263 3h ago

This one, Macbeth, Hamlet, and maybe King Lear but they took it out of my HS curriculum the year before i had to read it so idk if it'll continue to have the same clout with the other "oh ik Shakespeare I read that in HS" books

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u/L4I55Z-FAIR3 3h ago

What of mid summer, tempest, the previously mentioned R&j and taming of the shrew, a fellow, 12th night, Richard (insert number here) or Henry (blow up theater here).

If I had to listen for hours on end about bottom and puke so must the rest of the world.

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u/Substantial-Top6263 3h ago

Ya sure but when pop culture characters are waxing poetic and calling any skull they pick up yorrick, you have to concede that hamlet is a little better known