"Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. He had no invention as to stories, none whatever. He took all his plots from old novels, and threw their stories into a dramatic shape, at as little expense of thought as you or I could turn his plays back again into prose tales."
— Lord Byron, letter to James Hogg, 1814
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Hmmm. Did Lord Byron write anything? Besides critiques, I mean. 😉
Yes, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_byron
i agree. I was saying that in my World Drama classes in College, and no one believed me.