Talk:Shakespeare's writing style

Things to add[edit]

Things unique to Shakespeare's style:

High levels of spelling variation
Incredible skill with blank verse and crowd scenes
Neutral writing, as compared to the popular Queen's Men Acting company, who were known for anti-Catholic propaganda plays.
Deep knowledge and exploration of the human mind, which was unprecedented in his day.

Wrad 02:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BARD Rating[edit]

I added rating Start/Mid—mostly just so it qouldn't be unassessed—but I'm not sure about the importance rating. I'm more confident about the quality, but do please feel free to reassess if you disagree!--Xover 13:05, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two points[edit]

(1) The "What a piece of work is a man" speech is not a soliloquy.

(2) Shakespeare did indeed write about human beings; but so have virtually all writers.86.29.35.69 (talk) 22:02, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Partial page moves and admin notes[edit]

Just a note to other editors (and to help clarify for the admins dealing with the CSD tags)... After a move against consensus (from Shakespeare's style to William Shakespeare's style) back in 2012/2013, Tom tried to fix this with a two-step move back via Wm Shakespeare's style. I'm unclear on the details of what happened, but in any case we ended up with the following mess ("name → name" indicates a redirect) :

Shakespeare's style (main article, all good)
William Shakespeare's style → Shakespeare's style
Wm Shakespeare's style → Shakespeare's style
Talk:Shakespeare's style → Talk:William Shakespeare's style
Talk:William Shakespeare's style (this talk page, different name than main article)
Talk:Wm Shakespeare's style → Talk:Shakespeare's style

In order to fix this I've tagged the current Talk:Shakespeare's style (the redirect) for speedy deletion to make way for moving Talk:William Shakespeare's style to that name. In addition I've tagged Wm Shakespeare's style and Talk:Wm Shakespeare's style for speedy deletion (under G6 since R3 explicitly excludes redirects created by page moves, but in this particular case I think that's wrong: the page move was for technical/houskeeping reasons and the redirected name highly unlikely). --Xover (talk) 06:10, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete of Wm Shakespeare's style and its talk page has been declined (see its page history); and since it does no real harm to keep it I see no reason to take it to PROD or AfD. --Xover (talk) 07:17, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And the delete of the old redirect at Talk:Shakespeare's style and move of Talk:William Shakespeare's style to Talk:Shakespeare's style has now been done by Graeme Bartlett (thanks Graeme!). --Xover (talk) 11:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Shakespeare's handwriting which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 13:36, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]