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how did shakespear die?

Well wiki says he died on his birthday? How did he die though was it a coincidence that he died on his birthday?

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  • 8 years ago
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    The cause of Shakespeare's death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford (where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Ward, a self-proclaimed Shakespeare fan, wrote his diary fifty years after Shakespeare died and most historians agree it appears to be a baseless anecdote. It should be noted though that a serious outbreak of typhus, known as the "new fever", in 1616 (the year Shakespeare died), lends credibility to Ward's story.

  • Banana
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    8 years ago

    Liver failure. He drank himself to death. We just learned about this while we were writing sonnets. It was probably just because he was "celebrating"

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