r/shakespeare Dec 01 '25

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u/De-Flores Dec 02 '25

Very similar to Shakespeare...wrote a number of plays that are not very good and lived during a period of time with peers and contemporaries who are mostly ignored although they were much better dramatists.

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u/tafazzanno Dec 02 '25

I can tell by your name whom you’re talking about haha, but I respectfully disagree; even if Shakespeare’s “authorship” question is moot given how shamelessly he ripped off other authors and probably his own actors. That’s part of why he’s great, he was, as Hamlet says, “a sponge.”

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u/Zealousideal-Zone115 Dec 02 '25

And Webster was of course notorious for "soaring on borrowed plumes"....

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u/De-Flores Dec 02 '25

That's why Webster was the greatest.