[Quiet Man Cometh]

Shakespeare counts (are you referring to the fact that scholars aren't terribly sure if he really wrote all he did or if the name was a cover for more than one writer? Compicated guy, apparently.) I'm more of a Chaucer fan myself though. His stuff can be pretty darn funny, and pretty dark rude! Part of that might depend on how much effort I'm willing to put into reading though. Middle English is sometimes easier to work through than Elizabethan...sometimes.

Chaucer's Book of the Duchess is my favourite of his. For Shakespeare, I do like Hamlet. The guy is a bit of a knob though, but then, it is a tragedy. I actually recomend watching a movie version (perhaps the one with Kenneth Brannah though I don't necessarily agree with his interpretations of some of the lines) after reading it because I found the visual representation and recitation of the lines can bring out details or sequences that one missed while reading. There was a passage where Hamlet met two soldiers going off to fight a battle that I didn't really think about until I saw it on film and it added more to the meaning of the play for me.