Shakespeare's Greatest Work

There's a part in the play where cannons are fired, and one of them sort of mis fired and lit the thatched roof on fire. So shakespeare went out with a bang. He really went out with ha bang. But isaac said, look, this doesn't really answer my question. Because if we want to understand whether the past was full of objectively better writing than the present, then we must understand why great writers from the past are considered great at all. And here, sh Shakespeare actually presents a useful case study.