1) If he was such a hack, why have his plays endured and why has he managed to have such a strong effect on the English language? He coined at least a couple thousand new words, hundreds of which are in everyday use today.
> But this point could have been made with more clarity and brevity which is why although the play is a great play, we cannot call its author a particularly great writer
2) Humans love ambiguity because that's what tickles our evolutionary ATTENTION! sensors. Giving humans what they need to pay deep attention and want to experience something over and over is a sign of masterfulness.
> ... forced to suffer through this hack's tortuous and obfuscated attempts at drama and pathos
3) You're clearly not very in-touch with regular humans, because while you think it torturous and obfuscated, everybody else (for hundreds of years) has found it to be compelling and captivating... because what he captures is not some highfalutin intellectual concept, but everyday human crap. Which everyday humans find endlessly fascinating.
> But this point could have been made with more clarity and brevity which is why although the play is a great play, we cannot call its author a particularly great writer
2) Humans love ambiguity because that's what tickles our evolutionary ATTENTION! sensors. Giving humans what they need to pay deep attention and want to experience something over and over is a sign of masterfulness.
> ... forced to suffer through this hack's tortuous and obfuscated attempts at drama and pathos
3) You're clearly not very in-touch with regular humans, because while you think it torturous and obfuscated, everybody else (for hundreds of years) has found it to be compelling and captivating... because what he captures is not some highfalutin intellectual concept, but everyday human crap. Which everyday humans find endlessly fascinating.