A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Robert von Ranke Graves (also known as Robert Ranke Graves and most commonly Robert Graves) (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome and novelist.