William Shakespeare | Did Shakespeare write any "bad" plays?

While some of Shakespeare's plays (notably the four great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Othello along with The Tempest of his romances) clearly stand out from the rest, their individual reputations among critics have varied from one generation to the next and there have always been dissenting or minority views as to their value. Although the modern poet-critic T.S. Eliot considered Coriolanus to be Shakespeare's best play, the twentieth-century playwright George Bernard Shaw saw it as one of his worst. The only generalization that can be made about the critical appraisal of...

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