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Sunday, April 12, 2020

After the Plague, Shakespeare Imagined a World Saved from Poison, Slander and the Evil Eye by Paul Yachnin

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 homet…

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