Today is the birthday of a playwright who is considered to be the greatest English-language dramatist after Shakespeare. Even before he had written a masterpiece, this Irish playwright was announcing this very comparison to people, and adding that he did some things in play writing even better than Shakespeare did. He knew all of the plays he had written by memory. He was also a prolific music critic and literary critic, and he's highly quotable. He liked to quote himself. He said, "My specialty is being right when other people are wrong."
Who is he??
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