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

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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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[Fozzledick]

1. Yeah, but how did those all end?

[appalachiablue]

2. ...right to the point

[NNadir]

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

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

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

Whatever that might be.

[monmouth4]

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

[Poiuyt]

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

a masterpiece