I’ve always wondered about that. Yeah, you can objectively say Shakespeare was a master of the written word based on how many new words and phrases he coined an

I’ve always wondered about that. Yeah, you can objectively say Shakespeare was a master of the written word based on how many new words and phrases he coined and all that, but who are we to otherwise judge the qualitative merits of Elizabethan writing? How does a modern gauge whether Christopher Marlowe or any other contemporary authors are any better or worse than the Bard himself? What if there were other plays that were superior but simply got lost to history?