What Shakespeare can -- and can't -- teach us about Covid-19

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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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