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Originally Posted by latepaul
Shakespeare may not have had an editor, but he had an audience. If something wasn't working, wasn't clear, wasn't funny he knew pretty quickly.
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Shakespeare started out as the "house playwright" for the Lord Chamberlain's Men, so he would certainly have been given jobs like "We're putting on that old thing of Thomas Kyd's next week, Will. We need an extra scene to liven up the end of the first act."