> one needs to consider this in the context of his larger body of work.

That seems odd and it feels like you are defending it out of agreement with the author.

If this is a poor article, why can't it be criticized as such? If Shakespeare, who for this analogy is considered a great respected author, wrote a lazy and uninspired play, one should just endure just because it's Shakespeare and "one needs to consider this in the context of his larger body of work"? That's unnecessary and fallacious.