[Borges]

Hill passes off Kyd, Middleton and Webster as superior to Shakespeare. LOL There’s not a single example cited from these shock-meisters that would justify such an assertion. Also who was writing better female roles than Shakespeare before the Restoration?

[wideawake]

Webster and Tourneur are underrated, but Webster superior than Shakespeare?

This is just bad taste masquerading as discernment.

In terms of female roles, Shakespeare is the finest of the Elizabethan/Jacobean era and this in particular is an area where he clearly bests Marlowe.

[wideawake]

than = to. I’m autocorrecting myself out of fluency in my native tongue.

[expat2]

Shakespeare’s feel for human nature was truly outstanding. No over-rated there.

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n. pl. i·ro·nies
1. a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.