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How Real Events Shaped Shakespeare’s Most Famous Tragedies—and Inspired ‘Hamnet’

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The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

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How Real Events Shaped Shakespeare’s Most Famous Tragedies—and Inspired ‘Hamnet’

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

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Biography broke the news in on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
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