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how about the fac t that during a famine in Stratford, Shakespeare hoarded grain

for future profit and turned his back on starving townspeople
for no reason other than greed? It wasn't merely a personal supply,
it was enough so that shakespeare may have been afraid that the
townspeople would never be able to pay him back and recoup
his losses. At the time he own the second largest home in Stratford
and therefore wasn't financially hurting, by indications. The
fathers of Stratford said that all those who did such during
the famine should be hung by lamposts for the carrion, or
something like that. That sounds pretty businessman-like to me.

Posted by Bill Routhier on April 15, 1997 at 06:49:07
In Reply to "You ignore the possibility..." posted by Bruce Spielbauer on April 14, 1997 at 18:36:24

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        • well, shakespeare truely was conflicted... Bill Routhier 20:40:28 4/15/97 (0)

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