I didn't mean Shakespeare is bad I just don't like the world is a stage and everyone is an actor idea. For example: if I were offered a play acting part in the role of a soldier who is held in a prisoner of war camp for eight years but it is real life and I really am a prisoner of war for eight years I would hope to get at least a million dollars for that role but instead I would get nothing. If I got offered to play the part of a starving anonymous person and I died of starvation I would turn down that role.
Being so literal is no way to read Shakespeare, or indeed literature in general. As I understand it the stage/acting metaphor alludes to the idea that our fates are predetermined, and how little control we have over the trajectory of our lives.
