Hi, >>> Actually, Shakespeare was a second rate hack,
> Hmmmm, actually I have to strongly disagree on that one. Not just 'cos > "everyone else says so" either. His prose may be difficult to the > modern ear, but many of his themes are so universally human that they > remain true 400 years later. That alone raises him against much of the > competition, and that's leaving out the massive, unique contribution he > made to the English language. He might have been considered a 'hack' when > he was alive, but I doubt he was ever seen as second rate. one of his contemporaries described him as an 'upstart crow'. -- Cheers, Bob p.s. he didn't write prose.
