Elizabeth’s Reviews > Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare > Status Update

Elizabethan geopolitics--how much of it did Shakespeare use in his plays? Surprisingly interesting but also sooo complex and new to me!

I love that there was a vogue in the 1590s for sonneteering. 😂

Fascinating this section about Shakespeare as businessman compared to his fellow playwrights. He was in the top 3 most financially successful because the Lord Chamberlain’s Men was a shared business enterprise, he seems to have been frugal himself, and he made shrewd investments. Reminds me of how concerned Trollope was with how much his novels made. He has a forebear in Shakespeare! Writers gotta live!