You are exactly right, although he was very popular with the masses. Shakespeare became quite rich from his investment in the Globe theatre.
But he fell out of fashion quickly after his death. Classical forms of the theatre came into vogue. By those standards, Shakespeare was quite mediocre, even awful.
So Shakespeare was ignored for 200 years as an inferior playwright until the German Romantics rediscovered him in the early 1800s. The Germans taught the English to appreciate their greatest playwright. And then by 1830 the French caught the fever for Shakespeare as well. So Shakespeare's reputation as a the greatest playwright of all times is only 200 years old.
You are absolutely right.
By Aristotelian standards, Shakespeare was an atrocious playwright.
So much the worse for Aristotle.
The idea/image that angles are beautiful, fluffy, well, 'angelic', guardian-angle creatures is pure Victorianism.
Before the 19th century, and all the more so the further back you went, angles were no nonsense, somewhat/sometimes vaguely human looking creatures, the though of whom struck dread into the hearts of mortal men. The appearance of an angel was like a firm knock on your front door at 2:30 in the morning -- maybe it's good, but chances are it's bad. That's why on that first Christmas the shepard's were "sore afraid" when the angle(s) appeared with the news.
Angles were, in essence, the Almighty's "enforcers"....with the Almighty himself being a sort of divine Attila the Hun..
“You are exactly right, although he was very popular with the masses. Shakespeare became quite rich from his investment in the Globe theatre.”
I may have to disagree with you about his becoming quite rich.
In his will, he willed his wife his bed. Period.
I need to research this when I have time. But that is what I learned in my Shakespeare classes.