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Not by acting or by writing plays, but by being a sharer or partner in the acting company. He may have got his initial cash boost to buy into the company from the sale of his poem Venus and Adonis.

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William Shakespeare was a playwright with many successful plays. He put on shows that drew paying people to his productions.

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Shakespeare became rich by working as an actor during the Elizabethan Era.

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Mostly by being a partner in a successful company of players and the co-owner of a theatre or two. Not by writing plays, although he did make some good money out of his poem Venus and Adonis.

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