"Mr. Crosby's article on Shakespeare's attitude toward the working classes suggested tome the idea of also expressing my own long-established opinion about the works ofShakespeare in direct opposition as it is to that established in all the whole Europeanworld. Calling to mind all the struggle of doubt and self-deceit efforts to attune myselfto Shakespeare which I went through owing to my complete disagreement with thisuniversal adulation and presuming that many have experienced and are experiencing thesame I think that it may not be unprofitable to express definitely and frankly this view ofmine opposed to that of the majority and the more so as the conclusions to which Icame when examining the causes of my disagreement with the universally establishedopinion are it seems to me not without interest and significance."