Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A play that speaks to pandemics past and present

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A play that speaks to pandemics past and present

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By Elizabeth Schafer
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The writer feels ambivalent about the shared experience of live theatre, where masks are no longer mandatory for audience members in the UK [Kyle Head on Unsplash]

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Elizabeth Schafer looks at a contemporary reworking of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the relevance of the Bard’s plays to today’s COVID19-impacted theatre scene

There is much in it to relate to… as our world widens and we learn to “live with the virus” I went to the theatre for the first time in 15 months, 1011 Skull and books CR Andrés Gómez on Unsplash.jpeg, Plagues in Shakespeare’s time closed playhouses, including the Globe, but also gave him space to write new work [Andrés Gómez on Unsplash]