如題，從三本名言辭典輯來的。
（引述William Drummond of Hawthornden）Johnson, Ben
His censure of the English poets was this...That Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging. That Shakespeare wanted art.
In ‘Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden’ (written 1619) no. 3
Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford 1717-97
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted 缺乏 taste.
1764 Letter to Christopher Wren, 9 Aug. In The Correspondence of Horace Walpole (Yale edition,1937^8).
伏爾泰 Voltaire pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1778
This enormous dunghill 糞堆.
1776 Of the works of William Shakespeare. Letter to d’Argental, 19 Jul.
拜倫 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale 1788-1824
Shakespeare’s name, you may depend upon it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. He had no invention as to stories, none whatever. He took all his plots from old novels, and threw their stories into dramatic shape... That he threw over whatever he did write some flashes of genius, nobody can deny; but this was all.
1814 Letter to James Hogg, 24 Mar.
狄更斯 Dickens, Charles John Huffam 1812-70
‘I’m always ill after Shakespeare,’ said Mrs Wtitterly. ‘I scarcely exist the next day; I find the re-action so very great after a tragedy... and Shakespeare is such a delicious creature.’
1838-9 Nicholas Nickleby, ch.27.
達爾文 Darwin, Charles Robert 1809-82
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
1860 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol.1.
蕭伯納 George Bernard Shaw, 1856–1950
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.
in September 1896
Mae West, 1892–1980
Let Shakespeare do it his way, I’ll do it mine. We’ll see who comes out better.
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