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There was an epidemic of Bubonic Plague in 1564, the year Shakesepeare was born. Other epidemics also hit from time to time, influenza being common.
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What was the name of shakespeares hometown?
i do not know where his hometown was i think it was in Germany
What river flows through shakespeares hometown?
the nike river
What epicdemic killed over thousand of people in London during shakespeare time there?
There were a couple. Plague was a constant problem, although it had mutated into a different disease from the one it had been when it was the Black Death 300 years before. The epidemic Shakespeare talks most about is syphilis, which was a relatively new disease, introduced to Europe from America about a hundred years before and which caused the deaths of thousands of people, including, it is thought, King Edward VI.
In shakespeares time could theatres be closed down if there were too many cases of the plague?
Yep
What did people die from in shakespeares time?
The usual things: diseases (plague and syphilis were big ones), accidents, old age.
What disease raged through London during shakespeares time?
The Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Balck Death.
Where was shakespeares hometown?
The beautiful market town of Stratford-upon-Avon, which lies on the River Avon in Warwickshire, England.He lived about half his life in London, England but his hometown was always Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.
What did the bubonic plague do to shakespeares therter?
It closed the theaters down because people had come to realize that close contact helped spread the disease.
What health problem caused massive deaths during Shakespeares lifetime?
It was called the plague. The particular form of plague in the 16th and 17th century was called the "pneumonic plague" which affects the lungs and results in coughing as well as bloody vomit. The Bubonic Plague or black death was a related disease which resulted in massive deaths in the fourteenth century
When did the plague hit Europe?
1346
Where did the plague hit the least?
Italy
What was the London plague outbreak in 1593?
Yes, the Bubonic plague whad hit an epidemic before 1564 and was winding down by 1616.
