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General Category => Domestic & World News => Topic started by: AngelOfThyNight on April 08, 2020, 05:00:02 AM

Title: What Shakespeare can -- and can't -- teach us about Covid-19
Post by: AngelOfThyNight on April 08, 2020, 05:00:02 AM
What Shakespeare can -- and can't -- teach us about Covid-19

The wisdom of Twitter tells us that now is a time for writing masterpieces. Confined to our barracks of self-isolation, as if newfound responsibilities to home-schooling, elder care, and 24-hour self-sanitizing weren't enough, last week a widely shared tweet lectured us: "when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear."



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