![]() ![]() Thanks to their precautions, their child survived: his name was William Shakespeare. Another child was born, and when plague returned to their town, they sealed shut the windows and doors of their home. With the advent of our Covid-19 world, such facts became far more vivid to me. I hadn’t understood the fear and heightened state of caution epidemics caused.Ī 16th-century story to set the stage: a man and woman in a village in England lost children to the plague. Long ago, when I started to research, these events were simply blips on a timeline. With each epidemic, enormous numbers of people died. During this time period episodes of black plague and the quickly lethal “sweating sickness” came and went. The novel I’m writing now is set in mid-16th century England. ![]()
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