# Shakespeare — Heretics character guide

> Shakespeare in Heretics by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-heretics

## Who they are

William Shakespeare, playwright whose works are cited as literary touchstones.

## In the story

### [XV: On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/heretics_se/chapters/xv-on-smart-novelists-and-the-smart-set)

Mentioned alongside Byron as an example of a writer whose enormous imbecilities contrast with the feeble limitations of modern wits.

### [XVII: On the Wit of Whistler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/heretics_se/chapters/xvii-on-the-wit-of-whistler)

Mentioned as an example of a very great artist who was able to be an ordinary man.

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