An English actor said it best: at his best, Shakespeare was the best ever, and is the best ever, and n o one has ever been at their best more than Shakespeare. Who has been better? Euripides? Sophocles? Aeschylus ? Racine? Moliere? Marlowe? Wilde? Shaw? Schiller? Inge? Williams? Sartre? Albee? Genet? Saroyan? Brecht? Beckett? Miller? Ionesco? Osborne? Anouilh? Pinter? Chekhov? Too small a canvas. Ibsen? A joke, his only claim to fame is that he invented modern Liberalism, PREDICTABLE modern Liberalism. Shakespeare, did not create an arrogant, self righteous and boring political philosophy but recorded Humanity, in war, peace, bravery, treachery, despair, anger, jealousy, rage, buffoonery and madness. Who is eternally greater? HEDDA GABLER or LADY MACBETH? JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN or HENRY V? AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE or JULIUS CAESAR? GHOSTS or KING LEAR? THE WILD DUCK or ROMEO AND JULIET? Ibsen is a bad cable TV writer, paid by the wo...