Being a businessman. It was his holdings of shares in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and The Globe and Blackfriars Theatres that really made him his money. Although he continued acting and writing plays to ensure the profitablity of those businesses, he could never have made so much by just acting and writing.
William Shakespeare was not rich but was reasonably well-to-do.
Writing was not Shakespeare's only career, and probably not his first.
The first Elizabeth made William Shakespeare's career. She was very fond of the arts. She adored Shakespeare's plays.
William Shakespeare is well-known for his career as a playwright, which was part of his overall career in theatre, where he was also an actor and businessman.
It made him very rich and very famous.
He was well-off but not rich.
an English poet
She was a housewife.
by winning the lottery
he was very rich he was very rich.
Well , William Shakespeare was well-to-do when he was first born, but his father's business did not succeed, and William and Anne were thrown into poverty by Will's early marriage. His plays and poems made him (eventually) rich . "Poor and content is rich and rich enough." - William Shakespeare .
They were comfortably well off, but not rich.