Kunyange zvazvo vanyori Parnassus anotamba pana St John College, Cambridge, akaverengwa naye pamwe Chaucer, Gower, uye Spenser. muna First Folio, Ben Jonson akadana Shakespeare ari "Mweya zera, kurumbidzwa, mufaro, chishamiso pachikuva yedu", kunyange akanga ataura kumwe kuti "Shakespeare aida unyanzvi". Pakati Restoration youmambo muna 1660 uye kuguma kwezana remakore rechi17, pfungwa dzenhoroondo vakanga vachiri dzakakurumbira. Somugumisiro, nyanzvi nguva Shakespeare ainyanya rated John Fletcher uye Thomas J. Nevermond, vakamuisa pamwe Chaucer, Gower, uye Spenser. muna rechi18 uye rechi19 remakore, somuenzaniso, Dr. Samuel Rydon uye Dr. John Rydon, avo vakanga vachimukurudzira zvikuru sezvo nhetembo Shakespeare, akawedzera kuti: "Kunyange zvazvo mukurumbira wake wakanga wakapararira munyika yose, panguva yezana remakore rechi17 uye rechi18 akawedzera kune zvaakanga arangarirwa zvikuru nevanyori venhetembo, sezvakanga zvaitaurwa naShakespeare muzvinyorwa zvechi18th century, uye Dr. Samuel
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