![]() Instead, Shakespeare had to engage with the deepest desires and fears of his audience. The key was not so much topicality - with government censorship and with repertory companies recycling the same scripts for years. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a shareholder had to draw some 1,500 to 2,000 paying customers a day into the round wooden walls of the playhouse to stay afloat and competition from rival companies was fierce. ![]() Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Aimed at the broadest possible readership, this is the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's ![]()
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