In Which 'The Atlantic' Argues That Theatre Shutdowns Could Be Good For Plays by Artsjournal2

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 […]

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