Shakespeare >>>>>> Cervantes

Both are good. No need to fight over two of the greatest writers of Early Modern Europe.

>Shakespeare 

>Shake Spear 

>A warrior 



>Cervantes

>Servant Ass

>A donkey

Funny because Cervantes was the one who actually fought in battle at sea and even lost an arm because of it, whereas Shakespeare was just a gay actor.

>>21926377 (OP)

Bold opinion.

He was a slave

>>21926377 (OP)

Clearly. Who says otherwise?

Though one has the advantage

 of being a 'pastiche' of several

 different authors, last I read, so...

Cervantes was an actual warrior.

>>21926377 (OP)

delusional anglo subhuman.

He was a slave

Cervantes fought in Lepanto before he became a slave.

Rabelais >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shakespeare

Rabelais was the French Cervantes, very funny and rich in social commentary but lacking in artistic finesse.

>but lacking in artistic finesse

What about all those words he made up? He was Finnegans Wake 400 years before Joyce

No, he was in prison after the war.

>shakespeare

>warrior

lmao

So? He was a slave. You read slaves books. Gross.

b8

Cope. He was a slave.

Cope. He was a slave. Reading books by slaves is a sign of spiritual impoverishment however you try to rationalize it.

Cope for what? He fought in a war and was imprisoned. Meanwhile Gayspeare was writing faggot sonnets and taking it up the ass. I don’t read writers who never went to war.

Coming up with words is not the same as having artistic sensibilities and good taste. There are many good French writers who had an eye for aesthetic refinement, but what Rabelais is known for is quite the opposite.

Everyone is a slave before they are set free. Reading the writings of a warrior who laughed at the face of death during war is one of the most spiritually enriching experiences for a heterosexual man.

I say Cervantes, Rabelais, and Shakespeare were just a bunch of sick fuckos who liked making books full of jokes about Jews, fat people, cunts, and women .Cervantes wrote plays, and so did Shakespeare. Rabelais wrote novels, and so did Cervantes.

Their humor primarily appealed to the lower classes of their respective countries, despite writing stuff full of words that only highly educated people with a classical education would have understood.

They all just serve to indicate to us that no amount of knowing Latin and Greek will make you any less of a bawdy, lecherous old man who makes bad taste jokes.

Yeah well you're gay, you live a gay life. Gross

>C*rvantes 

One hit wonder

I love the style of both Rabelais and Cervantes in literalist translation (Frame and Ormsby respectively). It is ironic that Ormsby himself says Cervantes lacked artistic finesse and clearly seldom bothered to do much as proofread his rough drafts, yet I find Ormsby’s translation of this sloppy style to be delectable

>>Shakespeare 

>>Shake Spear 

A Spear Chucker? Old Bill was a black. I knew it!

Yeah, unlike 'lais, who was a two-hit wonder with 'tua and 'gruel

He was a pow; and respected to the point that he was permited to write in his reclusion.

>>21926377 (OP)

Having read Persiles and Sigismunda, can't argue with you. What a shitty, boring trash to write after Don Quixote

My thoughts hold mortal strife;

I do detest my life,

And with lamenting cries

Peace to my soul to bring

Oft call that prince which here doth monarchize:

But he, grim grinning King,

Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise,

Late having decked with beauty's rose his tomb,

Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.
