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Generally speaking, as a playwright he would hot have been held in very high esteem (say, like movie writers today), but within that context he was evidently respected and something of a hit. The evidence is oblique: we have a comment by an established playwright complaining about this upstart stealing all his audiences, and some unscrupulous publishers put his name on plays we know he didn't write, evidently because his name sold. After his death Ben Jonson, a major rival, wrote a very nice introduction to his collected works. No one considered him the greatest writer of all time -- that came later -- but he was respected within his field.Posted by Hamlet on March 19, 1997 at 09:57:41
In Reply to "What did the people of his time think about him and if plays?" posted by Smartz on March 18, 1997 at 18:33:34
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