. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . actors and mem-bers of the company, and combined personal interestand practical knowledge in theatrical profits of the Blackfriars Theatre were great popularity after 1598 or 1600 ^w^ ^, ^_-„.>, probably enabled him to Lpj^^*/^Xi^,»,^j?^^r, ^(-^Ti^ secure much larger re-turns from the sale ofnew plays than were paidto the majority of play-wrights ; while the feesalways distributed atCourt performances musthave amounted, in hiscase, to a very consider-able sum. From thesevarious sources Shake-speare
. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . actors and mem-bers of the company, and combined personal interestand practical knowledge in theatrical profits of the Blackfriars Theatre were great popularity after 1598 or 1600 ^w^ ^, ^_-„.>, probably enabled him to Lpj^^*/^Xi^,»,^j?^^r, ^(-^Ti^ secure much larger re-turns from the sale ofnew plays than were paidto the majority of play-wrights ; while the feesalways distributed atCourt performances musthave amounted, in hiscase, to a very consider-able sum. From thesevarious sources Shake-speare probably received,during the later years ofhis life, not less thanfifteen thousand dollarsa year in current Lee, who has made athorough investigation of the subject, thinks thereis no inherent improbability in the tradition, re-ported by a vicar of Stratford in the followingcentury, that Shakespeare spent at the rate of athousand a year. The poet had become the owner of various prop-erties at Stratford or in its neighbourhood. The. SHAKESPEARES SIGNATURE. THE LAST YEARS AT STRATFORD 391 houses in Henley Street had come into his posses-sion. The house at New Place, in which he tookup his residence, was a commodious and substantialbuilding; and the grounds, with the exception of athin wedge of land on Chapel Lane, extended almostto the Avon. His circumstances were those of acountry gentleman of ample income. When Shakespeare left London, he probablywithdrew from participation in the management ofthe two theatres in which he was a shareholder, buthis plays continued to be presented. His popularitysuffered no eclipse until the fortunes of the stagebegan to yield to the rising tide of Puritan senti-ment. During the festivities attending the marriageof the Princess Elizabeth, seven of his plays werepresented at Whitehall. That he made the threedays journey to London at short intervals and keptup his old associations is practically certain. His son Hamnet had died in th
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