pretty unbelievable that he was able to maintain such high quality while being so prolific, and across genres too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36166658)

but no, it doesn't really become "easier" reading, but you do kind of get the hang of it and it's more fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36166917)

tbf, i saw some of these when very young

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167845)

Another one that comes to mind is Merry Wives of Windsor. I read that in college and thought it was relatively poor: not funny, pandering, no attachment to any of the characters. I saw it done years later in a complete period recreation and was genuinely doubled over laughing at times and the whole audience was out of their seats by the end for a standing ovation. Not that this directly addresses your points, but Shakespeare can be exponentially more engaging in a theater.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36168020)

even community accts on xo can't keep their schtick straight, and that's just poasting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36166924)

[The Stratford Man] lived five or six years — till 1616 — in the joy of these elevated pursuits. Then he made a will, and signed each of its three pages with his name.

A thoroughgoing business man’s will. It named in minute detail every item of property he owned in the world—houses, lands, sword, silver-gilt bowl, and so on—all the way down to his “second-best bed” and its furniture.

It carefully and calculatingly distributed his riches among the members of his family, overlooking no individual of it. Not even his wife: the wife he had been enabled to marry in a hurry by urgent grace of a special dispensation before he was nineteen; the wife whom he had left husbandless so many years; the wife who had had to borrow forty-one shillings in her need, and which the lender was never able to collect of the prosperous husband, but died at last with the money still lacking. No, even this wife was remembered in Shakespeare’s will.

He left her that “second-best bed.”

And not another thing; not even a penny to bless her lucky widowhood with.

It was eminently and conspicuously a business man’s will, not a poet’s.

It mentioned not a single book.

Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned one he gave it a high place in his will.

The will mentioned not a play, not a poem, not an unfinished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind.

Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died this poor; the others all left literary remains behind. Also a book. Maybe two.

If Shakespeare had owned a dog—but we need not go into that: we know he would have mentioned it in his will. If a good dog, Susanna would have got it; if an inferior one his wife would have got a dower interest in it. I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.

He signed the will in three places.

In earlier years he signed two other official documents.

These five signatures still exist.

There are no other specimens of his penmanship in existence. Not a line.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36181771)

Aristotle, Newton, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167747)

Also Shakespeare plays (and plays in general) were low-brow entertainment in his day. He was basically the Elizabethan/Jacobean equivalent of a "smart people rapper", doing high art in a "low" medium.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167308)

he was writing mostly for prole entertainment. It would be like a network sitcom or medical drama having more 180 writing than True Detective S1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167320)

Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167760)

hot-blooded

barefaced

Etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167778)

once in a generation level

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3991536&forum_id=2#36167775)