60% approve. That's a passing grade, Bill!
18,000 people from 15 nations responded to a poll for the British Council to determine the Bard's economic impact in his homeland and abroad, and it found that English people, much like English weather, are sort of damp. Somehow, the world's most famous writer homegrown in their own land is disliked by 40% of the population.
A collected response from the 15 polled nations shows that 76% of respondents like Shakespeare's sonnets or plays overall.
Countries like India, China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, and South Africa have higher approval rates than England in the end.
What country is least favorable to Shakespeare though? That would be Germany, where only 44% replied they like his work and 42% said it was worthwhile.
Germany's hatred actually makes total sense in that Shakespeare often left at least one or two people alive at the end of his dramas, and no German wants that.
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