One storyteller disses another:
@JohnLithgow as Lear tonight: amazing. Shakespeare: not good. No stakes, not relatable. I think I'm realizing: Shakespeare sucks.
— Ira Glass (@iraglass) July 28, 2014
Same thing with the great Mark Rylance shows this yr: fantastic acting, surprisingly funny, but Shakespeare is not relatable, unemotional.
— Ira Glass (@iraglass) July 28, 2014
Well, there's no accounting for taste. And if you don't find Lear "relatable," consider yourself lucky. (For the record, I don't find Lear relatable either—I'm not old or accomplished enough to fall as far or fast as he did—but if I could only engage with what I related to, I'd be a terrible theater critic.)
But Twitter isn't about penetrating critique. It's about clever Gawker headlines ("Here Is a Challenging Opinion from Ira Glass") and witty responses!
Ira glass is just jealous because Shakespeare never got snookered by mike daisey.
— Elon (@elongreen) July 28, 2014
"Shakespeare sucks" - 16th century hipster
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) July 6, 2012
And my personal favorite of the responses:
Where were you when you found out that Ira Glass thinks Shakespeare sucks?
— Mark Ganek (@MarkGanek) July 28, 2014
But I think my favorite "Shakespeare sucks" tweet of all comes courtesy of poor Stephanie Ciricillo:
crying not only because Shakespeare sucks but also because he caused me to spill coffee all over my white comforter
— Stephanie Ciricillo (@saciricillo) April 13, 2014
Shakespeare: sucky, unrelatable, and also clumsy.