Introduction

Shakespeare is truly over-rated. Vastly, hugely and impossibly over-rated. Everything he and his characters ever said or did is revered, analysed, regurgitated, theorised, deconstructed and BORED ON ABOUT to the point where the whole world has blinded itself to the fundamental truth that Shakespeare really is a big pile of old shite. A huge, festering, mountain of poo. A monumental, overhyped, substanceless mass of stinking guano. In short, it is crap.

And it’s not just Shakespeare, oh no, it’s also the people who talk about and write about Shakespeare: the academics, the teachers, the students, the actors and directors; everybody who has been sucked into the great Shakespeare quagmire. They are all crap, too.

This blog offers the cynic’s guide to Shakespeare. It takes the lid off the myth and tells you, in unflinching detail, exactly what is wrong with Shakespeare and his works.