Fred's Fun Fact: Shakespeare!

Find out this fun fact about Shakespeare!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fread show is on Fred's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Fact Fred's Fun.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Learn so much so? Did you know?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Did you know that the Lubonic plague encouraged William Shakespeare
to write poetry? That's why it happened. In an attempt
to prevent the plague from spreading. Back in Shakespeare's time,
many public places were shut down until things improved. That's
why theaters were closed in January of fifteen ninety three
and didn't reopen until the spring of fifteen ninety four.

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Child's play just a year, Just a year of closures
come on. This closure meant that playwrights like William Shakespeare
were temporarily out of work, and that's when he spent
his time writing poetry instead of focusing on his famous plays.
And it's likely when he began his one hundred and
fifty four sonnets. What did we come out of the epidemic?

(00:58):
What did we come out of the pandemic?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Trauma?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Anxiety, drink? I worked on my weed, my weed, I
worked on my weed. I worked on my.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Mid section and clearly on on when speaking addiction and
words more.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
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