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is consistantly cited as monetary in the foremost. The sonnets
are most often proposed as a commissioned work. Of course there
are complex motivations in any writing, but the current acadmeic
premise is that Shakespeare's fundamental reason for writing was
for the rise in fortune it give him, isn't that so? I hear it said
over and over again. He loved the theater, sure, but he was
a businessman at heart.
Posted by Bill Routhier on April 14, 1997 at 10:15:30
In Reply to "False binary" posted by Cloten on April 14, 1997 at 08:27:35
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