Whether Orwell or Tolstoy is right about Shakespeare's genius, it's impossible to reliably quantify, or even qualify, genius outside of contributions to the har

Whether Orwell or Tolstoy is right about Shakespeare's genius, it's impossible to reliably quantify, or even qualify, genius outside of contributions to the hard sciences. Orwell himself actually talked about this in Politics and the English Language. He discussed the debate about that lasted unnecessarily long about the nautical screw, showing how even a relatively easily provable concept can be difficult to prove.