(Harkup's excerpt appeared in Shakespeare & Beyond, 5/5; via Pam Green.) What would it have been like to live through the plague outbreaks of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? And what insight does that give us into the mentions of plague in Shakespeare's plays? Kathryn Harkup has looked at the science behind literature from Mary […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:18PM on May 14, 2020