Shakespeare usually ends up on lists of “best writers ever”, but the style is so different from contemporary fiction that I don’t know if reading Shakespeare would be at all useful for absorbing writing skills.
It’s worth pointing out that Shakespeare wrote for a medium that doesn’t really exist any more in quite the same sense. He is still worth investigating. His work hasn’t endured for centuries without reason.
Shakespeare usually ends up on lists of “best writers ever”, but the style is so different from contemporary fiction that I don’t know if reading Shakespeare would be at all useful for absorbing writing skills.
It’s worth pointing out that Shakespeare wrote for a medium that doesn’t really exist any more in quite the same sense. He is still worth investigating. His work hasn’t endured for centuries without reason.