Read about another entry on the list.George Bernard Shaw on William Shakespeare (1906)
It takes a brave writer to swim against the tide of critical consensus. None braver than George Bernard Shaw who decided that the Bard himself was a fitting target.
"I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy, to the superficiality and second-handedness of his morality, to his weakness and incoherence as a thinker, to his snobbery, his vulgar prejudices, his ignorance, his disqualifications of all sorts for the philosophic eminence claimed for him..."
Shaw went on:
"With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his."
--Marshal Zeringue
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