Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Shakespeare ba a girmama shi ba a lokacin rayuwarsa, amma ya sami yabo mai yawa. A shekara ta 1598, limami kuma marubuci Francis Meres ya ware shi daga rukunin marubutan Turanci a matsayin "mafi kyau" a cikin wasan kwaikwayo da bala'i. Marubutan wasan kwaikwayo na Parnassus a Kwalejin St John, Cambridge, sun ƙidaya shi tare da Chaucer, Gower, da Spenser. A cikin Folio na Farko, Ben Jonson ya kira Shakespeare "Ruhun zamani, yabo, jin daɗi, abin al'ajabi na fagenmu", kodayake ya lura a wani wuri cewa "Shakespeare yana son fasaha".Tsakanin Maido da masarauta a 1660 da ƙarshen ƙarni na 17, ra'ayoyin gargajiya sun kasance cikin tsari. A sakamakon haka, masu sukar lokaci sun fi yawan Shakespeare a karkashin John Fletcher da Ben Jonson. Thomas Rymer, alal misali, ya la'anci Shakespeare domin ya haɗa ban dariya da bala'i. Duk da haka, mawaƙi kuma mai sukar John Dryden ya ba Shakespeare daraja sosai, yana cewa game da Jonson, "Ina sha'awarsa, amma ina son Shakespeare". Shekaru da dama, ra'ayin Rymer ya ci gaba; amma a cikin karni na 18, masu sukar sun fara amsa Shakespeare a kan kansa kuma sun yaba da abin da suka kira gwaninta na halitta. Jerin wallafe-wallafen masana na aikinsa, musamman na Samuel Johnson a 1765 da Edmond Malone a 1790, ya kara daɗaɗa martabarsa. A shekara ta 1800, ya kasance a matsayin mawaki na kasa. A ƙarni na 18 da 19, sunansa ya yaɗu a ƙasashen waje. Daga cikin waɗanda suka goyi bayansa akwai marubuta kamar su Voltaire, Goethe, Stendhal, da Victor Hugo.  Tambaya: Ko da yake ya sami yabo mai yawa a lokacin rayuwarsa Shakespeare ba menene ba?
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