Plays don't catch diseases.
There is no representation of an epidemic in any of Shakespeare's plays either.
Bubonic Plague
Bubonic Plague
There was a plague outbreak in London, one of several during Shakespeare's career which closed the London theatres and caused the playing companies to go on tour.
Outbreaks of plague, which would be pneumonic plague rather than bubonic plague (sometimes known as the Black Death), within the City of London, caused the theatres close to the City to be closed down, including the ones Shakespeare was working at. Henslowe's Diary suggests that in 1594, towards the end of a particularly nasty plague outbreak, the Lord Chamberlain's Men (which would have included Shakespeare) were performing at Newington Butts theatre south of London and out of the plague area.
Plague closed the theaters. it is a disease.
Mercutio, from the play by William Shakespeare: Rome and Juliet
In 1593, a plague outbreak in London caused the theatres to close. Shakespeare had chosen not to leave London, but rather had chosen to stay and put the finishing touches to his first published work, Venus and Adonis.
play writer and actor
In London, England.
Shakespeare was alive later than when the plague killed Europe.
The plague spread through London and forced theatres to close to stop more people becoming infected.
During outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague all the theaters in London would be ordered to shut down. The chances of surviving the plague were only 50%.