William Shakespeare is viewed by many as the greatest dramatist that ever lived. He was born in a farming community, received a relatively limited education, began his theatrical career as a bit-part actor, and yet wrote many of the most humanistic, perceptive, and moving pieces of literature in existence. He wrote with perception and compassion of shepherds and kings, warriors and whores, those who love and those who hate, those who encourage life and those who destroy it. He also became a successful, very wealthy theatre producer and landowner, turning the profits he made from his plays into investments in new homes for both his plays and his family. He was aware of what the public wanted to see and wrote to accommodate those desires, but at the same time managed to incorporate penetrating.....
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