Maria Penas' post: Internet Shakespeare FAQ's: What Makes Shakespeare Great?

Internet Shakespeare FAQ's: What Makes Shakespeare Great?

"People still talk about Shakespeare and study his plays because

-- he wrote plays that are enormously rewarding to act and direct

-- his characters are endlessly interesting and impossible to reduce to a simple formula

-- his language, though now difficult, is subtle, richly varied, and eloquent

-- the plots of his plays still speak to the experiences of a modern world

 -- his plays survive translation and are performed around the world

-- he's just an amazingly good writer

There are also some less attractive reasons. Some people still talk about Shakespeare because:

-- he's famous, so you should take him seriously

-- he's famous so you would look bad if you didn't say you liked him

-- he's always been studied, so we should go on studying him"

The article then went on about aspects of Shakespeare's life that were/are interesting. The author never went into why Shakespeare is so famous as opposed to other writers.

I think Shakespeare is definitely worth his fame, but the argument missing here is that what if there were other authors worth his fame, too?