![]() ![]() READ MORE: Why Is William Shakespeare’s Life Considered a Mystery? The Gunpowder Plot influenced 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear' In 1606, as England was roiling from a near-assassination attempt on King James, the plague returned to wreak havoc on Londoners once again.īut Shakespeare knew how to navigate the bumpy terrain by this point, the threats of royal upheaval and a debilitating illness no obstacle to him completing three of his great tragedies – King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra – in that year alone. He was working in London when the bubonic plague surfaced in 1592 and again in 1603, the latter a particularly lethal outbreak that left more than 30,000 city dwellers dead. William Shakespeare was no stranger to the task of plying his trade amid difficult conditions. ![]()
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