Shakespeare has not been well served by modern critics, says literary critic Frank Kermode.
Contemporary scholars have often focused on the political context of Shakespeare's writing, or an analysis of Elizabethan acting, but Kermode argues that the greatness of Shakespeare's plays is linked to his language, which was difficult even for Elizabethan audiences to understand.
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