William Shakespeare was a Hoarder.

[hope]

I`m pretty sure we all of us are well acquainted with the name William Shakespeare.
Some of us may have read his works for pleasure whilst others among us may have had to do so for examination purposes etrified:
I wonder however, if many knew that the great Elizabethan playwright was actually a "hoarder"...and an illegal one at that?
According to a study done at Aberystwyth University, the famous bard was not only threatened with jail for "tax evasion" but he was also an illegal grain hoarder. It seems the bard bought and stored grain, malt and barley, which he then resold at "inflated" prices to tradespeople and neighbours during times of food shortages.
It seems Shakespeare was actually prosecuted at one point for hoarding this grain during a time of food shortage.

Of course another way to look at this is that the times in which Shakespeare lived were hard. There were food shortages and poverty. He may well have seen this as a way to provide for his family.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-21993857

 

[LeBrok]

At least he knew first hand the villain characters he was writing about.

 

[nordicwarrior]

Yikes, I hope you wouldn't consider me a villain for storing grains Lebrok.

What's amazing about Shakespeare is the scope of his vocabulary, and the fact that he made up a bunch of words that we use today (like the word amazing).

 

[ebAmerican]

"Shakespeare’s original grave marker showed him holding a bag of grain. Citizens of Stratford replaced the bag with a quill in 1747."

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

 

[hope]

"Shakespeare’s original grave marker showed him holding a bag of grain. Citizens of Stratford replaced the bag with a quill in 1747."

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-facts/

Well now, I never knew this ebAmerican. Interesting.

 

[oriental]

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2007/11/03/10-surnames-that-began-as-insults-no-1-shakespeare/

This was in the newspaper article. :embarassed:etrified::innocent:

Maybe he was a starving artist when he began so the memories lingered on.

 

[LeBrok]

Yikes, I hope you wouldn't consider me a villain for storing grains Lebrok.

What's amazing about Shakespeare is the scope of his vocabulary, and the fact that he made up a bunch of words that we use today (like the word amazing).

It meant hoarding food for speculation, big profit in the future, in a time of famine, not mentioning breaking the law.
Are you the one stoning the bankers for similar excesses?

 

[nordicwarrior]

I'm for having the bankers that were guilty of fraud and theft being charged appropriately. And not the little fish nobody's ever heard of, but the big guys that stole the lion's share of the loot. Have I ever used the phrase "stoning"? If I did I shouldn't have, that's violence which isn't going to score any points for my argument.

I do have a decent amount of grain stored, but I don't plan on selling it. In fact I've got enough for family and neighbors and I plan to share freely when the SHTF. (I do have other items which I plan on using for barter though.)

Here's some more words Shakespeare is credited with inventing...

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html

 

[Cambrius (The Red)]

Wonder what other things will come out about the man, in future.