All Literature departments in the western world. Seriously, though: First half is pretty conventional assertion, the second half is taking it into pretty hyper

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.