Maher makes fun of Bpat, I mean comic book fans

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(11-20-2018, 02:07 PM)Dill Wrote: However, by Dickens' time, even those criticizing "juvenile themes" in Shakespeare generally granted he was the all time greatest poet/dramatist in English, which most students of lit still agree with today.  Not true that his writing was dismissed as "without depth." That would have been a fringe opinion.

In the U.S. Shakespeare was wildly popular throughout the 19th-century U.S., with acting companies traveling the nation putting on his plays. In New York audiences rioted over good/bad/different performances and actors. 

This is in regards to criticism from their contemporaries, though. They had plenty of critics during their time (and praise) which now seem so bizarre given their legacy and the incredible mark we know they left. 

Dickens (Not Shakespeare) was criticized as lacking intellectual depth.