This arguement only makes sense if Shakespeare became wealthy, especially in porportion to his fame. Seeing as we know so little about the man, its impossible to say.<p>Its easy to be a household name and flat broke. Ask all the washed up movie and rockstars about that. There is of course an amusing &quot;rageingly out of control costs&quot; paralell to startups there.<p>An additional irony is the claims that Shakespeare was a plagurist...