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Money. Shakespeare's object in writing plays was to have something fresh which would bring in some paying customers to the theatre which he partly owned. In those days, plays did not have long runs even if they were successful. They were more like television shows. You don't see television stations showing the same episode of the same show over and over for weeks or months on end. They show it once and it is gone. The same was true of the theatre in Shakespeare's day, so they constantly needed new material. Shakespeare must have seen potential in the poem he read about "Romeus and Juliet" and decided to turn it into a play.

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