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It's 1593, theatres in London are closed due to the plague, and William Shakespeare is probably bored and stressed about his future as a playwright. He dedicates a frisky poem to the Earl of ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Like Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare made good use of his time off when the theatres were shut for plague in ...

(1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London’s theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of ...