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As far as we can tell (which is not much), Shakespeare's personal life had no effect whatsoever on his writing. Plays are an art form which rarely give any insight into the playwright, since there is not usually an omniscient narrator which represents the author's point of view, as in prose writing. Poetry can sometimes reveal something about the poet, but although Shakespeare's sonnets are written to various people, they do not really tell us much about Shakespeare's relationship with those people, which is why they are the basis for so much wild speculation.

However little Shakespeare's personal life appears to have contributed to the content of his writing, his associates made his writing possible. He could not have published his poetry without noble patrons, nor could he have written the plays without the support of his theatre company.

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