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“Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger – it’s not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.  But we should, according to a group of academics who say the Bard was a ruthless businessman who grew wealthy dealing in grain during a time of famine.  Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales argue we can’t fully understand Shakespeare unless we study his often-overlooked business savvy.  One said that oversight is the product of ‘a willful ignorance on behalf of critics and scholars who I think – perhaps through snobbery – cannot countenance the idea of a creative genius also being motivated by self-interest’.”

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