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iluvtennis

(19,844 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 06:54 PM Mar 2020

If social distancing has you down, remember Shakespeare wrote "King Lear" during plague quarantine

Tim O'Brien@TimOBrien·7h
If social distancing has you down, just remember that Shakespeare most likely wrote “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” and “Antony and Cleopatra,” during a plague-inspired quarantine between early 1605 and late 1606.

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If social distancing has you down, remember Shakespeare wrote "King Lear" during plague quarantine (Original Post) iluvtennis Mar 2020 OP

Yeah, but how did those all end? Fozzledick Mar 2020 #1

...right to the point appalachiablue Mar 2020 #2

Definitely upbeat plays. They'd be cancelled today. n/t. NNadir Mar 2020 #3

Then maybe this will finally give me the opportunity to produce my masterpiece. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #4

Now, where's my pen...n/t monmouth4 Mar 2020 #5

Oh great. Now I'm depressed because of isolation and I feel inadequate because I haven't written Poiuyt Mar 2020 #6

Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)

1. Yeah, but how did those all end?

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 06:57 PM

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appalachiablue

(41,114 posts)

2. ...right to the point

Reply to Fozzledick (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 06:59 PM

Mar 2020

NNadir

(33,512 posts)

3. Definitely upbeat plays. They'd be cancelled today. n/t.

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:00 PM

Mar 2020

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,659 posts)

4. Then maybe this will finally give me the opportunity to produce my masterpiece.

Reply to iluvtennis (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:14 PM

Mar 2020

Whatever that might be.

monmouth4

(9,693 posts)

5. Now, where's my pen...n/t

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 07:17 PM

Mar 2020

Poiuyt

(18,122 posts)

6. Oh great. Now I'm depressed because of isolation and I feel inadequate because I haven't written