page_title: Timeline of Shakespeare criticism
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Shakespeare criticism
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving by Benjamin Smith of Thomas Banks's relief sculpture Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry originally placed above the entrance to John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in 1789, and re-erected in New Place Garden, Stratford in 1870
context_page_description: Shakespeare enjoyed recognition in his own time, but in the 17th century, poets and authors began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language. In fact, even today, no other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British stage as Shakespeare
  Since then, several editors and critics of theater began to focus on the dramatic text and the language of Shakespeare, creating a study that focused on extracting all the power of his literary texts, being used in studies on the printed page rather than in the theater. This attitude reached a high point with the Romantics, which saw his figure as a genius, prophet, and Bard—and continued to be important into the last century, receiving analysis not only by poets and authors, but also by psychoanalysts, psychologists and philosophers.
context_section_description: This article is a collection of critical quotations and other criticism against William Shakespeare and his works.
  Shakespeare enjoyed recognition in his own time, but in the 17th century, poets and authors began to consider him as the supreme dramatist and poet of all times of the English language. In fact, even today, no other dramatist has been performed even remotely as often on the British (and later the world) stage as Shakespeare
  Since then, several editors and critics of theater began to focus on the dramatic text and the language of Shakespeare, creating a study that focused on extracting all the power of his literary texts, being used in studies on the printed page rather than in the theater. This attitude reached a high point with the Romantics, which saw his figure as a genius, prophet, and Bard—and continued to be important into the last century, receiving analysis not only by poets and authors, but also by psychoanalysts, psychologists and philosophers.
caption: Engraving of Shakespeare: the term "bardolatry" derives from Shaw's coinage "Bardolator", combining the words "bard" and "idolatry" by refers to the excessive adulation of Shakespeare.[1][2]
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