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> William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time and one of the most important and influential people who has ever lived.

I see some hype just there. Is there any study on what the world will look without William Shakespeare influence? Or it is Shakespeare so famous like the Mona Lisa is (It has its merits and place in history, but, not the one that the press has given)?

> An online exhibition, due to be made available in early May 2020, presents 3D-scanned artefacts recovered at the site of New Place. These objects, some of which may have belonged to Shakespeare, have been chosen to characterise the chronological development and activities undertaken at the site.

A part of the voyeuristic and quays-religious approach to the exhibition, the increased interest in archeology that this kind of projects can create is welcome. As, much as I am skeptical about the trendy obsession on certain authors or pieces of art, the general public awareness and funding for high-tech 16th Century archeological techniques is welcome. It is not the first time that spectacle and science empower each other, and I hope that is not the last one if we want the science to keep rolling.

All Literature departments in the western world.

Seriously, though: First half is pretty conventional assertion, the second half is taking it into pretty hyperbolic territory. Even if it’s right. “Shakespeare” (the works, and allowing for controversies over authorship and attribution) is still worth talking about if you just stuck to the first half of the sentence.