Shakespeare apparently wrote King Lear while the Globe was shuttered because of the bubonic plague (a trope that echoed heavily on Twitter over the weekend). Then there's the economic opportunity: "Given that the bubonic plague particularly decimated young populations, it may also have wiped out Shakespeare's theatrical rivals"companies of boy actors who dominated the early-17th-century […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM on March 15, 2020