Why study Shakespeare?

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  1. 4. Composers did not receive payments from these people, so they were not inclined to print their texts.
  2. 6. Dramatic texts are written to be _________.
  3. 10. The first collection of Shakespeare's plays is called the ____________.
  4. 11. With Heming he collected Shakespeare's plays.
  5. 12. Shakespeare's use of this enables us to work out how some words were pronounced.
  6. 14. Shakespearean comedy: The _______ of the Shrew.
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  1. 1. Shakespeare's plays were comedies, tragedies and __________.
  2. 2. A word Shakespeare created to mean 'underwater'.
  3. 3. The composer's copy of a text.
  4. 5. A play is this type of text.
  5. 7. We have no record of this play.
  6. 8. A poem containing fourteen lines of verse.
  7. 9. The non-existence of these laws was a disincentive for composers to keep copies of their written texts.
  8. 13. Shakespeare's tragedy, ________ and Juliet.