Ben Jonson: "Shakespeare never blotted line. Would he had blotted a thousand."
Elizabeth Montagu in 1769: "Shakespeare's plays were to be acted in a paltry tavern, to an unlettered audience just emerging from barbarity."
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Ben was speaking to his Genius. If he was "human," he would have blotted a thousand.
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Bill Walton
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