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April 23, 2016

By the time of his death, he had retired and was considered past his prime.

By the 1620s, his plays were no longer being performed in theaters. On the day he died, no one -- not even Shakespeare himself -- believed that his works would last, that he was a genius or that future generations would hail his writings. He hadn't even published his plays -- during his lifetime they were considered ephemeral amusements, not serious literature. Half of them had never been published in any form and the rest had appeared only in unauthorized, pirated versions that corrupted his original language. -- Never Yet Melted

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 23, 2016 6:46 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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