During the 16th century, a young couple in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, lost two of their children to the bubonic plague. The pair barricaded themselves inside to protect their 3-month-old son: William Shakespeare.
During the 16th century, a young couple in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, lost two of their children to the bubonic plague.
Theatres closed for 14 months and 10,000 Londoners died, says Columbia University professor and authorThe play features a scene where Friar John is sent to deliver the message to Romeo about Juliet’s faux death. But the Friar is suspected of being in an infected house and quarantined — making him unable to deliver the message to Romeo.
“People died in all kinds of ways in Shakespeare's plays. Nobody ever dies of plague. It's just taboo,” he says. “So the few times that he does mention plague, mostly in his tragedies, it hits with incredible force.” “These plays really bear the mark of living through such a terrible experience,” he says. “And it may well be that his move toward writing tragedy at this time is a kind of response to the tragedy that his society was experiencing in these years.”In “King Lear,” the title character mentions the plague when cursing his eldest daughter, Shapiro says.
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