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Opinion: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Living With Pandemics By Emma Smith Ms. Smith is the author of “This is Shakespeare.” March 28, 2020

Coronavirus seems like child’s play in comparison to plagues during Shakespeare’s time. This article only alludes to such plagues — it focuses on the plays Shakespeare wrote in the amid such catastrophic times. {LGT}

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