He was an actor by heart, a cobbler at trade, and playwright when inspired hands brought to life the internal voice of poet and realist. ... The young actor furthered his career in such plays as, Henry the VI (c.1590), Titus Andronicus (c.1593) Romeo and Juliet (c.1594). ... It was autumn when the London stages received a notices that all playhouses would remain closed. ... Laurence Taylor's journal published in 1612 from Everyday Life: Of the Sixteenth Century, helps to depict the spread of the plague through the English Theaters. My Edward, a player with Shakespeare's Lord Ch...

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