Being paid for it.
There's no evidence to suggest this.
Shakespeare didn't write stories. He wrote plays. Plays are very different from stories. Imagine if you took your favourite story and left out everything except the things that the characters say. That's what a play is like. Shakespeare was encourage to write plays because it was his job. The more plays and the better plays he wrote, the more money he made.
Is this a question? William Shakespeare did write his plays.
William Shakespeare did not write anything called Merlin the Magician
William Shakespeare did not write novels. The initials "BB" have no relevance to anything Shakespeare did write either.
The possibility of making money out of doing it.
There's no evidence to suggest this.
Shakespeare encouraged people to pursue literature
They were encouraged to write. Henslowe's journal shows that a playwright could get an advance on his payment for a play once he had explained the basic outline of it. The balance of their pay came when the play was done, so there was a great incentive to write it, and quick.
Shakespeare didn't write stories. He wrote plays. Plays are very different from stories. Imagine if you took your favourite story and left out everything except the things that the characters say. That's what a play is like. Shakespeare was encourage to write plays because it was his job. The more plays and the better plays he wrote, the more money he made.
Is this a question? William Shakespeare did write his plays.
William Shakespeare did not write anything called Merlin the Magician
William Shakespeare did not write novels. The initials "BB" have no relevance to anything Shakespeare did write either.
There is a legend that the Queen so enjoyed the character of Falstaff in the plays Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 that she encouraged him to write a further play about Falstaff, which Shakespeare did. It's called The Merry Wives of Windsor.
shakespeare wrote about tragicomedies and romance
It was his job, or one of his jobs. Shakespeare was paid to write plays.
Shakespeare died in 1616. He didn't write anything is the 50's