Tolstoy hated Shakespeare and thought him wildly overrated. He wrote a long essay about it that'll probably resonate with you; having located it for you, I find that George Bernard Shaw shared his opinion (his letter is at the end of the book).

You blew it, Anatoly. You should have waited for Goetz to specify how much dissent is the right amount of dissent about Shakespeare (which I've now asked Goetz twice), and then revealed Tolstoy and Shaw.