One storyteller disses another:



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!



And my personal favorite of the responses:


But I think my favorite "Shakespeare sucks" tweet of all comes courtesy of poor Stephanie Ciricillo:


Shakespeare: sucky, unrelatable, and also clumsy.