In 1606, deaths from the plague led to the closure of theatres. The disease reached the playwright's house in London, and was to change his professional life, and the whole of drama, for everIn late July 1606, in the midst of a theatrical season that included what may well be the finest group of new plays ever staged " Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, Ben Jonson's Volpone, and Thomas Middleton's The Revenger…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PM on September 24, 2015