"Plague shaped Shakespeare's life," Kathryn Harkup writes in her new book. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury Sigma, 368 pages, May 2020 publication date.) The first outbreak of the Plague during Shakespeare's lifetime occurred three months after his birth in 1564, and he was among only one-third of the children in the...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PM on March 31, 2020