since then, several editors and critics of theater began to focus on the dramatic text and the language of shakespeare, creating a study that focused on extracting all the power of his literary texts, being used in studies on the printed page rather than in the theater. this attitude reached a high point with the romantics, which saw his figure as a genius, prophet, and bard—and continued important in the last century, receiving analysis not only by poets and authors, but also by psychoanalysts, psychologists and philosophers.