I think it’s just a bunch of literature graduates who are creating this hype around Shakespeare and sort of circlejerking and making it like a big thing so that their useless degree somehow remains relevant

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    I look at most of the classical composers in the same way. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and the like have reason that they’ve been studied and reinterpretdd for as long as they have. Modern popularity doesn’t have the persistance of time to judge against. As much as I might like the guys and their influence on modern music I can’t imagine anyone will be studying the works of Ozzy Osbourne or Kurt Cobain 400 years from now.

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      Kurt Cobain I’m not sure, but the likes of Giorgio Moroder or Led Zeppelin definitely pioneered and excelled in their field and have as chance of joining the canon of “forever” remembered legends. We have to remember that in the times of William Shakespeare there were many successful writers, or in Beethoven times - remarkable composers. Only the pioneers and persons of interests made it to modern general consciousness.