The Problem With Shakespeare

"Shakespeare is a biographer's nightmare. Not because the information about him is so overwhelming or incriminating but because it is so slight and so stubbornly innocuous. We forgive our great poets almost anything -- suicide (Sylvia Plath), homicide (Ben Jonson), incest (William Wordsworth), hubris (Oscar Wilde), drunkenness (Edgar Allen Poe), insanity (Friedrich Nietzsche), sexual excess of every description (Byron, Shelley, Houellebecq -- who not?). What we are loath to forgive is quiet respectability." (Source: Cristina Nehring, writing in The Atlantic) A biographer's nightmare? OK. What would you want to be remembered for??? Public speaking skills, writing? The ability to move people?? Or personal notoriety??