A plague on all your houses: when Shakespearean theatres went dark
During the Elizabethan era, London was repeatedly hit by plague – leading to periods of extended theatre closures and quarantines. Historians Will Tosh and Giles Ramsay tell Natasha Sutton Williams about how it affected actors and theatremakers
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