Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic plague swept across England and killed a quarter of the people in his hometown. Death by plague was excruciating to suffer and ghastly to see. Ignorance about how disease spread could make plague seem like a punishment from an angry […] The full version of the article After the Plague, Sha…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:13AM on April 12, 2020