Your tastes in arts (film, novels, music, TV....)

I was worried about the listing for Literature, and then music, since you all pretty much know my tastes in music, although some folks do not seem to understand, or get an idea that my tastes are so universal that it throws off folks that tend to list more "well known" stuff due to their fame, or pop/hit music levels.

Cervantes, would be in it, so would some Shakespeare and even Boccaccio ... not to mention Goethe and Hesse, and at least one French, and one of my favorites is Moliere, and his social and _______ commentaries everywhere. But then, there is one that is not usually mentioned, but the Marquis de Sade, is actually a very good writer, even if some think it is sad and sick! Doris Lessing is a novelist that I love to read also. Some of her works are just ... not only well written, they are the kind of stuff that you remember a long time.

A lot of the literature I like happens to be in theater ... Peter Weiss MARAT/SADE is probably the play I consider the best, and one that was quoted by the Beatles, Bonzo Dog Band, and many others, which kinda explains its incredible upheaval when it opened in London, and how shocking it was, and became. It was sort of pure psychedelia in the middle of all the rest. And you didn't need dope to appreciate it, although many people will get highly upset at the political and social commentaries in there. (paraphrasing ... I am a revolutionary with a vision ... and the reply is ... no you are not. You are another man with an idiotic vision that thinks he's better than anyone else!)(... and the acting, in the play ... a total wow!). Let's see ... Michel de Ghelderode is a fantastic playwright. Sam Sheppard is also a far out playwright. And there are some things from Japan that are also amazing ... and some films were made of many of them, and they deserve the mention and attention.