"How did William Shakespeare write so much?" [Shakespeare in context]
On productivity and the commercial stage
Certain people get very exercised about how much William Shakespeare wrote. Long poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle. The Sonnets (154 of them). And then the artefacts for which he is globally recognised and feted: the plays.
How many are there? Well, around 38. That sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? But in reality - c…
