Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique
over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of
theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an
auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?