I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
“After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.”
“With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.”