Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  He wāhanga: Kaore a Shakespeare i whakahonoretia i tona oranga, engari he nui te whakamoemiti ki a ia. I te tau 1598, i tohua ia e te tohunga me te kaituhi a Francis Meres i roto i te roopu o nga kaituhi Ingarihi hei "te mea tino pai" i roto i te whakakatakata me te aitua. Ko nga kaituhi o nga mahi a Parnassus i te Whare Wananga o St John, Cambridge, i whakairihia ia ki a Chaucer, Gower, me Spenser. I roto i te Folio Tuatahi, i kiia e Ben Jonson ko Shakespeare te "Wairua o te waa, te whakamoemiti, te koa, te miharo o ta tatou atamira", ahakoa i kii ia i tetahi atu waahi "I hiahia a Shakespeare ki te toi".I waenga i te Whakaora o te rangatiratanga i te 1660 me te mutunga o te rautau 17, he pai nga whakaaro tawhito. Ko te hua, ko te nuinga o nga kaitohutohu o taua wa i whakawhiwhia ki a Shakespeare i raro i a John Fletcher me Ben Jonson. Hei tauira, i whakahe a Thomas Rymer i a Shakespeare mo tana whakaranu i te mea whakaari ki te mea pouri. Heoi anō, i tino whakanui a John Dryden i a Shakespeare, e mea ana ki a Jonson, "Kei te whakamoemiti ahau ki a ia, engari e aroha ana ahau ki a Shakespeare". Mo etahi tekau tau, ko te tirohanga a Rymer te mea nui; engari i te rautau 18, ka tiimata nga kaiwhakawhiwhi ki te whakautu ki a Shakespeare i runga i ona ake tikanga me te whakanui i ta raatau i kiia ko tana mohio maori. He raupapa o nga whakaputanga maatauranga o tana mahi, ina koa ko era a Samuel Johnson i te 1765 me Edmond Malone i te 1790, i whakapiki ake i tana rongonui. I te tau 1800, i tino whakamanahia ia hei kaitoi motu. I te rau tau 18 me te 19, i horapa atu hoki tona ingoa ki tawahi. I roto i te hunga i tautoko i a ia ko nga kaituhi ko Voltaire, ko Goethe, ko Stendhal, ko Victor Hugo.  Pātai: Ahakoa i nui te whakamoemiti ki a ia i a ia e ora ana, ehara a Shakespeare i te aha?
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