missing Shakespeares

"Think of all the geniuses you must be missing!" says Cordelia in BARRAYAR (now CORDELIA'S HONOR).

I wonder sometimes how many Shakespeares we are missing as a society, with the current system we have in place for publication. I tend to believe that systems exist for a reason, because they are quite useful in the main. When I was trying to break into publication, I always told people that I believed firmly that I just had to become good enough that an editor couldn't turn me down. I didn't ...