Recognition

Glad I'm not the only one. I was just thinking, "I have no idea what Shakespeare looks like," other than the caricature of him they do in TV shows.
- No written contemporary description of Shakespeare's physical appearance survives, and no evidence suggests that he ever commissioned a portrait
- The only way I recognize Shakespeare as Shakespeare is the giant collars he wears that seem to be in every picture of him.
The only author whose face I would reliably recognise would be Rowling, and that's because she's constantly in the news for being a hateful Terf. I haven't read any of her books.
I'd probably recognise Pratchett as well.
But yes, I'm not sure what you'd expect.
- Not sure I'd recognize Rowling outside of context, but I'd definitely recognize George R. R. Martin, despite never having read or watched anything he's made. He's got a very distinct look.
- You'd probably recognize Steven King also, but yeah the list is extremely small for everyone
- Forsooth I bite my thumb at thee.
- So, Lion King…
I think my first memories of seeing Shakespeare's face was on a credit card hologram? The only image I can find is this:
But maybe it's a false memory.

“The younger generation recognizes 100+ Pokémon but almost no domestic bird. “

Yeah, most birds don’t spout their own name constantly though. Imagine a dove yelling “Dove! Dove!” while shitting on your head.

The humble cuckoo:
- The not so humble Grey go-away-bird:
- & Uhu, Zilpzalp and a couple of other exceptions do exist.
  However, they can’t hold a Litwick to Lampent.
Pretty much every native NZ bird is named after the sound it makes.
- Even the Puteketeke, New Zealand's Bird of The Century?
- First (& very common) bird I looked up seems to be the exception?
  Fantail / pīwakawaka Known for its friendly ‘cheet cheet’ call and energetic flying antics, the fantail is one of the most common and widely distributed native birds on the New Zealand mainland.

In addition to all the other comments on how this is just Gen A hating on Gen A+1, it's pretty easy to miss possibly the biggest reason Sonic stands out: he's fucking BLUE

Ngl I like this. A+1. Now do we go B+1 and continue from there or A+[1-255] first?
- Only until A+F, it's obviously hexadecimal.
Also those new movies were a lot more fun than they had any right to be.

Time to make a really bangin' Shakespeare video game.

It should be a strand-type game.
- Yeah, that'll really capture the young audience.

Is this purely a visual comparison of appearance or also work like “to be or not to be”

Or did they simply ask. “Do you know who x is” and take peoples word for it if they say yes.

Sonic was designed to be recognized. He's a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who works in a primarily visual medium.

While Shakespeare excelled with the written word, I doubt he could crouch down and rotate his body more than a few dozen RPM without getting dizzy and needing a lie down or whatever British people do when they get overwhelmed.

If you dug up shakespeare, I wouldn't recognize him either and I'm a millennial.

This might come as a shock to you, but I don't know what Michelangelo looks like and I don't think I would recognize him. I can however name all the most prolific furry artists of our time.

This might come as a shock to you, but I don't know what Michelangelo looks like and I don't think I would recognize him
He's the one with the orange mask and the nunchucks

We have a handful of portraits of one, and hours of animated material of the other. Who do you think gets looked at more? If that survey was actually conducted that was a huge waste of time.

quits phd

So funny when they try to present something expected as "see how the new generations are".

We only have one portrait which is likely to be of Shakespeare. It's fairly common on books and articles, but I wouldn't expect a casual theatre fan to immediately recognize it.
But I would expect a casual gaming fan to immediately recognize Sonic, even if they've never played any of the games.

I can't remember there was a Shakespeare videogame. But I played Sonic The Hedgehog from it's first releases.

I guess I haven't missed something.

Realistically, is that a bad thing? Who cares what he looked like. Plenty of people don’t recognize people like Socrates, DaVinci, etc. does it matter if people can recognize them?

DaVinci
That's a weird way of spelling Dewinky.

Holy shit, people are more aware of things relevant to the time they live in and the things they actively take part in than things from literally hundreds of years ago that are difficult to establish as relevant in a modern society because it has no tangible relevance to the current era?! THE CHILDREN ARE DAMNED!

Seriously, is there anything more to these lines of thought than a fear of being outdated?

What's this obsession with Shakespeare ?

I think he was Robotnik's dad?
The language he used in his plays was written the way they were was so all the different English languages/dialects could understand it. So he was key in developing the English language.
- I'm not sure everyone would agree on that.
  But even then, who gives a shit about how he looks? People have this weird fascination for him as if he's a newer Jesus or something, pretending that he is the One that everyone should know and respect and quote and love. That's much closer to an obsession than something about being a good writer.

As there are exactly zero images of Shakespeare that can be considered genuine, it would be a miracle if anyone would recognize him. Some people might recognize the one or other portrait with debatable relation to him, that's it.

The post is probably referring to his works.

as it should be. what kid is reading shakespeare?

The most common cut off I'm seeing for Gen Z is 2012, so by that metric they're at least 13 years old. I don't know about school curricula these days, but I'd say all but the youngest 2-3 years have had a decent chance of having Shakespeare as a school assignment.
- My niece is 9 (Year 4) and studying Macbeth. We didn't do that until Year 10, I think. We did Romeo and Juliet in Year 8.

Wtf is "recognize shakespeare"?

No one knows who he was let alone what he looked like. Some people suggest that it was even possibly more than one person.

Also his writing more or less sucks. Id rather go fast any day.

I remember when the same was said about millenials except the comparison was between Ronald Mcdonald and Jesus/George Washington.

Maybe they should put Shakespeare's remains in an fMRI machine to find out.

This is "Mario is more recognisable than Mickey Mouse" all over again lol

Y'all in here doing your best to defend the shitty education you got.

Why?

- The duality of man
Its not really about education. I am fully aware of who Shakespeare is and how he is commonly depicted.
But a blue hedgehog that also happens to be the mascot of a bit multimedia company is simply way more recognisable.
I bet this guy didn't even learn to recognise 李白 in school.