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The idea that writers sit around waiting to be "inspired" is a very romantic one. Professional writers set aside time and write every day. They do not wait to be "inspired". If you check out the way writers like P.G. Wodehouse or Ernest Hemingway worked it was like this. We do not know very much about Shakespeare's work habits when writing, but we do know that he was a professional writer who earned his living partly through his writing, and that because he was also a professional actor with rehearsals and performances to attend, he had only limited time to write in. This suggests that the romantic idea of him writing when the inspiration hit is not accurate. If your question really means "Where did Shakespeare get the ideas for his plays?" the answer is that he got them from books he had read of history and Italian stories as well as from older plays he had seen and perhaps acted in. Very few of Shakespeare's stories were really original; the originality was in the way he told them.

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