Whales and Dolphins ... Steemit is about words articulating ideas, ideals & insights. Nevertheless, the term "Starving Poet" is an axiom for a reason.
Even Shakespeare required patrons ... first the Lord Chamberlain, and then the King.
Although James VI of Scotland was proclaimed king of England on March 24, 1603, it took him over a month to arrive in London. Within ten days of his arrival there, and despite the fact that the theaters were closed due to plague, he gave instructions for turning the Lord Chamberlain's Men, of which Shakespeare was a member, into the King's Men.
From the moment of enrollment, Shakespeare and the other players listed -- Lawrence Fletcher, Richard Burbage, Augustine Phillipps, John Hemings, Henry Condell, William Sly, Robert Armyn, Richard Cowley, "and the rest of their associates" -- were under the patronage of the king. According to the warrants and letters patent, after "the infection of the plague shall decrease," the players were free to perform at the Globe and throughout the country "for the recreation of our loving Subjects," as well as for the king's "solace and pleasure when we shall thinke good to see them."
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Whales and Dolphins ... Steemit is about words articulating ideas, ideals & insights. Nevertheless, the term "Starving Poet" is an axiom for a reason.
Even Shakespeare required patrons ... first the Lord Chamberlain, and then the King.
http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/king-james-establishes-kings-men-warrant-under-privy-seal