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Shakespeare ‘was a ruthless trader’

  
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Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger — it’s not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.

But we should, according to a group of academics who say the playwright was a ruthless businessman who grew wealthy dealing in grain during a time of famine.

Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales argue that we can’t fully understand Shakespeare unless we study his often-overlooked business savvy.

“Shakespeare the grain-hoarder has been redacted from history so that Shakespeare the creative genius could be born,” the researchers say in a paper due to be delivered at the Hay literary festival in Wales in May.

Jayne Archer, a lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature at Aberystwyth, said that oversight is the product of “a willful ignorance on behalf of critics and scholars who I think — perhaps through snobbery — cannot countenance the idea of a creative genius also being motivated by self-interest.” (more…)

Shakespeare Was A Surprisingly Ruthless Investor And Profiteer

  
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Even the master of literature had to fund his passion somehow.

 Researchers from Aberystwyth University in Wales are calling attention to Shakespeare’s lesser-known ventures, which they say have been scrubbed from history by snobby researchers unable to reconcile “creative genius” with “savvy businessman.”

When the bard wasn’t busy writing dramatic and clever plays, he was also purchasing and storing “grain, malt and barley for resale at inflated prices to his neighbors and local tradesmen,” according to a review of historical literature by the researchers. He “pursued those who could not (or would not) pay him in full for these staples and used the profits to further his own money-lending activities.” (more…)

A Blast From the Past-Quotes Relates to Trading

  
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The quotes alone are worth the price of admission. Here are a few that could be applied to trading. Take a read and think about how each quote relates to trading.

Emerson said, “All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”

Faulkner once said, “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Samuel Johnson wrote, “Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”
Shakespeare wrote, “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.” “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Robert Oxton Bolton once wrote, “A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”
Nietzsche wrote, “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
Albert Einstein said, “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still the will be a scar left behind.” French writer François de la Rochefoucauld. “
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” Rose Kennedy 
Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

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